For What It's Worth...

[liadnan]

The Standard headline is "Hottest Day [in london] EVAH [recorded?]" and it appears the National Grid are warning that electricity demand is hitting supply and we can't have any more from the French cos they need it, sorry. ETA:BBC in slightly less doom and gloom mode than Standard shocker

London is certainly reminiscent of Athens right now. I am off to the roof with my laptop and some gin.

ETA: 97.3/36.3 near Gatwick, says the BBC.

British temperatures this week have exceeded such holiday destinations as Malta, Athens, Bermuda and Rome.

The previous hottest July day was in 1911, when Epsom, Surrey, reached 36C. The highest UK temperature recorded was 38.5C (101.3F) in Faversham, Kent, on August 10, 2003.

I remember that day in 2003. Today is much better: less humid. Actually there's a pleasant cool breeze on our roof at the moment.

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't you be better off with an olive?

Enjoy.

[liadnan]

Tempting, but I'd have to walk all the way to Sainsburys and back...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'm just stopping off at the cash machine at Morrisson's on my way to the pub - I'll see what I can do.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Heh. London is hotter than Haryana today. :)

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Edinburgh. The haar has been in, and kept us wonderfully - and pleasantly - cool.

For the first time (evah...), I am in favour of fog.