On: Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in UK near 40°C

[saberience → hotz]

This is an idiotic comment. As a British person, for most of my lifetime it was a shock to get 30+ temperatures in the UK and if you got multiple 30+ days in a row it was newsworthy. Also, 99.99% of people in the UK don't have fans at home, let alone AC, it simply has never been needed.

So yes, a 40 degrees C day in the UK is insane news, especially given it's about a degree and a half hotter than the previous all-time record!

[techwiz137 → saberience]

You will be seeing 50c very soon, just as we saw 46c and have been seeing 40c for years, I am surprised nobody prepared for this.

[masklinn → hotz]

It’s the first time since records started that 40C has been reached in the UK. Before today it was quite literally not a thing that happened.

The average high temp of a london summer is 24C.

This is not a “summer is hot” situation, this is a “country has never planned and is not prepared for” situation.

[12ian34 → hotz]

Tell that to the people whose homes have been destroyed. or perhaps all the people that have died in these conditions. It's not typical in the UK. Imagine if you had to emergency evacuate your home for some natural disaster that you'd never have imagined was possible where you live. Would you really be so cavalier? Would you really say this?

[secretsatan → hotz]

Wow, really insightful comment right here, brilliant observation. Do you all get it? The commenter is pointing out how we have seasons in the uk, and they are absolutely unchanged, this is all totally normal in the uk! Brilliant!