[Newsbot]

Title: Britain sets record-high temperature mark, climbing over 40 C for 1st time
Category: Weather
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2022-07-19 05:45:36
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

Wildfires kill 2 in Spain, force thousands more to flee homes in France

[DrCaleb]

UK Royal Air Force halts flights to military base due to melted runway caused by heatwave

[xerxes]

Just like our heat dome last year, this is a horrifying preview of our near future.

[housewife]

Yeah you can’t really argue against all the evidence that we have seen this last few years

[DrCaleb]

New record: 40.2. And the number of new records is also a record. So it's not just one place that set a record, it's a huge swath of the UK, from Wales to Scotland.

And it will get hotter this week.

[DrCaleb]

Major incident declared in London as fires burn

$1:

More than 250 firefighters tackling London's grass fires

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Temperatures hit 40C in several locations

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Emergency services facing 'unprecedented challenges'

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New record of 40.3C in Lincolnshire

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UK record broken at 29 sites across England

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Scotland records hottest temperature

[herbie]

My Scot ex-wife would've been so disappointed at not being able to wear her favourite sweater at the beach!

[bootlegga]

housewife housewife:

Yeah you can’t really argue against all the evidence that we have seen this last few years

Climate Deniers Climate Deniers:

Yeah, but the world was even hotter when the dinosaurs were alive - global warming is a hoax!

/sarcasm

[Scape]

- Spanish Man Filmed Escaping Wildfire Treated for Serious Burns

[Scape]

U.K. Movie Theaters Offer Free Tickets to 'Vulnerable' Redheads During Unprecedented Heatwave

Are they screening 'Brave'?

[Strutz]

It's awful right now in much of western Europe. They are experiencing what we already face in some areas of North America with extreme highs combined with drought conditions. The difference being that they are not used to it... yet.

It's crazy right now that some places are burning while other areas are drowning.

[DrCaleb]

Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites

Using cool water instead of air conditioning has reached the limit where the water doesn't cool down enough to keep server farms running.