They need a calibration trip to Phoenix.

“Britain has recorded its hottest day of the year for the third consecutive day as temperatures close in on 90F (32C), as the extreme heat caused main roads to crumble away.

Gritters and emergency 'action teams' have hit the streets of the country in a bid to stop the tar on motorways and vital access roads from melting away in the burning heat.

It comes as the temperature record for the year was smashed this afternoon, with 89F (31.9C) registered in Portmadog in Wales.

Soaring temperatures even saw some roads crumble underneath the wheels of drivers, with reports of tar melting away and sticking to the tyres of motorists in Ireland.

The sweltering conditions even caused Barton Swing Bridge in Salford, Lancashire to expand, forcing firemen to douse the expanded metal frame in cold water for half an hour to get it to return to normal…”

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...018-today-again.html

Bahhahahahahahahahah!

What the hell?

Got up early on Monday to go shooting. 39 degrees.
Jolly good show!

And none of them have AC either.

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Originally posted by bubbatime:
What the hell?

Have you ever been there? It's cool usually even in the summer, 89 to them is probably like 110 to us.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
“Britain has recorded its hottest day of the year for the third consecutive day as temperatures close in on 90F (32C), as the extreme heat caused main roads to crumble away.

Uh huh

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Originally posted by PASig:
And none of them have AC either.

A bitter joke among British sports car owners:

Why do the British drink warm beer?

Because they have Lucas refrigerators.

89?, that’s a pleasant morning in Houston, then it gets hot.

I was there in June of 2000 when the temperature got into the upper 80s (around 31 celsius) and you would have thought the end of the world was upon us.

Lots of places without air conditioning. No one has fans even.

It was 10 degrees cooler than where I left (central Virginia)

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

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Originally posted by PASig:
And none of them have AC either.

A bitter joke among British sports car owners:

Why do the British drink warm beer?

Because they have Lucas refrigerators.

Having owned British cars and motorcycles in the 70's, this made me laugh.

Jim

The ancestors of these people survived hostile climates all over this planet.

Get these people a gigantic tampon.

thats what it cools off to at night around here

I wish it was only 89 around here.

I suppose we can shut off the Gulf Stream for them. That should cool things off a bit over there.

I just checked - my swimming pool is at 88

pansies

Let's just have a reality check for a moment before you start taking the piss out of the Brits [again]. If you put London on the same latitude in North America, you'd find that it situated some 90 miles North of Calgary.

There has to be a reason why so many Americans who live WAAAAAAY South of that location go and live in Florida during the winter months, or vice-versa.

The average annual temperature in the part of UK that we live works out at 58F, with highs of 75F and lows of -10F.

Extremes of weather do not happen in the British Isles.

To the people living here, 90F IS an extreme weather condition.

tac

That explanation may have worked in the days before travel, but I’m assuming at least some UK residents have traveled to warmer climes in Spain, etc.

89 degrees is by no stretch of the imagination extreme. Yes, I’m from the Caribbean, but I have lived in Chicago for a couple years. The human body can adapt.

It’s not as if the weather spiked to 105+ like it did in France a few years back...


As for your latitude... I’d check on the Gulf Stream Physically, the UK may be located at a particular latitude but due to the aforementioned GS the climate is much, much more similar to a more Southern latitude.

Interesting that the asphalt is melting at that temperature. If that happened here, most of the roads in the country would be impassible. Are there different types of road tar?

It may seem an extreme weather condition to Britons, but that doesn't make it an actual extreme weather condition.

(We do it here - Texans freak out at temperatures even approaching freezing, but that doesn't mean that those temperatures are really very cold.)

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
Let's just have a reality check for a moment before you start taking the piss out of the Brits [again]. If you put London on the same latitude in North America, you'd find that it situated some 90 miles North of Calgary.

That's not an accurate reflection of climate there though due to ocean currents and whatnot.

Though I do agree that it is "extreme weather" for those who live there. My in-laws live in the Brittany region of France near the coast and start freaking out when the temperature gets over 75F.