A fair few fire's around the Rotherham and Doncaster area with 1 big fire which seemed to block the sun out a bit around Doncaster.

Leicestershire Fire Department have deRed a major incident.

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London Ambulance Service are receiving 400 calls an hour and is under extreme pressure.

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And Boris has not attended a single COBRA and instead went on a jolly with the RAF and held a party at Chequers. 

 

He had to time to fling Tobias Ellwood out the party for not turning up for the confidence vote in his inept prime ministership. Ellwood is the MP who tried to save the life of a PC outside Westminster after a terrorist attack. Buller Buller!

The sky helicopter keeps panning out and finding new fires.

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Oh look. The flag shaggers are blaming activists.

https://twitter.com/brettestacey/status/1549418003883868162?s=21&t=ybUIEBEQnNq2oJmIN21EfQ 

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I can see smoke from a big fire just north of Watford near the M25 (Sarratt area) :O

Saw some large smoke plumes coming from E of Sheffield. Not sure the exact source yet but looks like a bushfire type.

The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute has issued an orange warning for extremely high temperatures of around 35c in northeast Götaland and southern Svealand on Wednesday and Thursday.

Sky rolling coverage of London burning

BBC hardly mentioning it, perhaps protecting the Govt

 

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Sky rolling coverage of London burning

BBC hardly mentioning it, perhaps protecting the Govt

 

I flicked over the BBC and they were still

going on about the leadership campaign. This is terrible event that has been unfolding. 

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I flicked over the BBC and they were still

going on about the leadership campaign. This is terrible event that has been unfolding. 

And they found the only teacher in the country who was delighted with the Govt's pay rise

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Our public service workers are working flat out to keep us safe. You held another party for yourself. Disgrace. https://t.co/uotF3et432

— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) July 19, 2022

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Sky rolling coverage of London burning

BBC hardly mentioning it, perhaps protecting the Govt

 

lets keep politics out of the Weather Outlook. Today is a special day for discussion of this historic heatwave.

A fair few fire's around the Rotherham and Doncaster area with 1 big fire which seemed to block the sun out a bit around Doncaster.

Notts fire and rescue are very busy with a lot of fires breaking out.  A big one at Blidworth with 15 appliances in attendance. 

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The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute has issued an orange warning for extremely high temperatures of around 35c in northeast Götaland and southern Svealand on Wednesday and Thursday.

I think Denmark could beat its decades old all time record tomorrow. 35.1C I think, and the models show 36C near the German border.

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Question is, do we retire this thread now or does it take us through to next weekend? Still a number of ensemble members with 850s suggesting mid 30s.

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Question is, do we retire this thread now or does it take us through to next weekend? Still a number of ensemble members with 850s suggesting mid 30s.

It wouldbe great if one of the mods could 'sticky' it for future reference.A truly historic day!

My biggest worry with such a long dry spell and now the current heat!  Fire crews are now at a woodland fire just to my South/East, not far from the Sherwood Forest visitor centre. Can smell it quite strongly now.  We’re pretty much surrounded by woodland and once it gets into dry undergrowth, it spreads very quickly.  

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Question is, do we retire this thread now or does it take us through to next weekend? Still a number of ensemble members with 850s suggesting mid 30s.

Keep it for a while longer, it would be good to see how this breaks up.  Plus, as per my previous post, there’s the aftermath. 

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Question is, do we retire this thread now or does it take us through to next weekend? Still a number of ensemble members with 850s suggesting mid 30s.

Keep it a bit yet,  tmrw could easily be another 30c day in the East. And another plume likely at the weekend could see a couple more 30c days. Also tmrw could see Cambridge BG take the title again.

 

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