Alternative heat

[People crowd the beach at Coney Island, New York, on June 30, 2012. As the planet warmed over the past decade, there has been a 2,300 percent increase in fatalities from heat waves. Reuters, Newsweek]

We don't need the volcanos of the previous post (reference 1) to feel the heat. I learn this morning from Medscape that we are into another heatwave, following the earlier one in mid June. Amongst other things they say that: 'The UK last experienced a heatwave in June this year, when a maximum temperature of 32.7 degrees C was recorded at Heathrow and at Santon Downham in Suffolk on the 17th'.

The highest officially recorded daily maximum temperature in the UK was 38.7 degrees C, recorded at Cambridge Botanic Garden on July 25, 2019'.

For the geographically challenged, Santon Downham was once the HQ for the planting of Thetford Forest. Quite near the important USAF bases that are sometimes known as RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall. At one of which we once saw, from a passing road, a couple of fighter jets taking off in parallel, wing tip to wing tip. Presumably not a manoeuvre for the fainted hearted.

While I don't think the Botanic Garden ever got anywhere near 40°C in our day. Nor did we account such things in Centigrade. Things have clearly changed for the worse.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/07/volcanoes.html.

Reference 2: Heat and Health Alerts issued for English Regions as Temperatures Soar - Peter Russell, Medscape - 2022. 8th July.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_wave. From which I learn that the concept of heat wave is the subject of much learned debate around the world.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santon_Downham.