Britain's Hottest Day (New Record High Temperature)

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Britain's hottest day

Weather



Published: 10-Aug-2003
By: Peter Morgan



Britain's summer heatwave reached its peak at London's
Heathrow airport.


Today's record temperature of 100.2 degrees Fahrenheit or 37.9
degrees Centigrade beats the previous high spot of 98.7F, set
at Cheltenham 13-years ago.



Temperatures in Birmingham hit 94F today - while in Liverpool
they rose to 91F. Bristol and Cardiff both hit 90 degrees. It was
cooler on the coast - Brighton got to 81 degrees.



In Scotland, things were a little more bearable - with
temperatures in Glasgow and Edinburgh reaching 80 degrees.

http//www.channel4.com/news/2003/08/week_2/10_heat.html

[Guaranteed]

1. Wow....

Keep in mind the northern latitude Britain occupies...

[GCP]

2. But there's no such thing as global warming

Rush and Bush told me so.

[Paschall]

3. It's now 11:30 pm in Paris...

...and 90 degrees F in my apartment (which has a northern exposure and gets no direct sunlight).

Several parks in the city are now closed to the public because limbs are falling from dying trees. City sidewalks in some neighborhoods are littered with huge piles of dead leaves.

Supposedly an anonymous Italian meteorologist predicted this was going to last through September.

[amberdisc]

4. 100.6 F in Gravesend, Kent

What a jolly name for a place!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3138865.stm">link BBC

[tsipple]

5. More Taste of Iraq for Tony

Ironic, isn't it?

[T_i_B]

10. Tony is in Barbados

cooling himself in Cliff Richards pad whilst his country burns and his government is in the not-exactly-competent hands of John prescott.

Anyone got an ice cream I can borrow?

[inthecorneroverhere]

6. please, people....

Although this is a zone of high-pressure lying over Europe, I do believe that these extremes are symptoms of global warming caused by overreliance on fossil fuels such as coal and oil.

Many of the people in the history of 'nuke stuff,' including Albert Einstein, Irene Joliet-Curie, and Enrico Fermi were either leftist-progressives in their own right, or else fled fascism during the years leading up to World War II. Folks should read up on these people. They led very interesting lives!

Nuclear power is not by 'its nature' anti-progressive. It is one of the components, along with wind and solar, as well as battery-assist automobiles, that is needed to counter greenhouse gas emissions. Why??? Because if you have a nuclear power plant, you burn that much less coal or oil to generate the electricity.

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I send out my hearfelt wishes and, yes, prayers that there will be rain and some cooler weather in Europe, very soon. I want to visit Europe, but I do now want to visit a modern-day 'Dust Bowl.'

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Gott will es regnet in Europa!!!

[OldEurope]

11. nuclear power plants are closing down now,

here in Germany, because the water in the rivers is too warm. At the moment we have to raise our energy output by burning more gas and fuel and coal...
I´d prefer more solar power plants!

And i wish I could feel like this:
:scared:

[The White Rose]

7. Oh crikey!

I'll be there on Tuesday! Better bring some sunscreen...

[DemBones DemBones]

8. A couple of years back, the Royal Horticultural Society predicted

the famed English garden will be extinct in some twenty years because Britain will cease having a cool and rainy climate and become a "Mediterranean" clime. God only knows what the weather will be like in the actual Mediterranean then.

[Alexander]

9. I didn't know Cheltenham got so hot.

Maybe I'll put off visiting Brian Jones's grave next July.