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Is it ‘Freedom Day’ Already?

by Toby Young
17 July 2021 7:53 PM

Sun-starved Britons flocked to beaches and parks today causing miles-long tailbacks on the hottest day of the year so far as temperatures hit 88F (31C), making parts of the U.K. warmer than the Caribbean. MailOnline has more.

The warmest parts of England today were Yorkshire, the Midlands and Bristol – and conditions could be even hotter tomorrow with the Met Office warning of 91F (33C) highs as the summer heatwave continues.

The balmy weather, driven by a blast of warm air coming in from the Azores in the North Atlantic, has prompted health officials to issue warnings about the dangers of extreme heat – especially to the elderly and vulnerable.

The sunshine is due to last until so-called ‘Freedom Day’ on Monday, the day when the last of the Covid-19 restrictions are due to be lifted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, when thunderstorms could arrive.

Thousands of people have flocked to beaches across the country, with London and the South East seeing clear skies and highs of 84F (29C) today – with the mercury climbing to between 88F (30C) and 90F (32C) tomorrow.

And, for a change, the heat is being shared across the country – with the North Midlands and South Yorkshire hottest today, followed by the South East tomorrow.

Monday is expected to see the highest temperatures shift to the West Country. But we are still a long way off record temperatures – with the all-time UK record of 101.7F (38.7C) being set in Cambridge on July 25, 2019.

Tom Morgan, meteorologist at the Met Office, said: “We have got quite an extended hot spell of weather to come through the next several days lasting much of this week, nighttime temperatures will be in the high teens Celsius and daytime temperatures will be in the high twenties or low thirties.

“It’s going to mean that people are really going to feel the effects of the heat as we go through this week.”

Worth reading in full – not least for the gallery of photographs showing people relaxing and enjoying themselves in the sunshine.

Tags: BeachesFreedom DaySunshine

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mka1221
mka1221
3 years ago

Oh no it’s slightly warmer than usual.

Cover up, stay at home, save lives.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
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Hypatia
Hypatia
3 years ago

Er….it is summer…..it gets warmer in summer. Usually. That’s what we want, you know, not having to wear a coat, or take an umbrella with you.

It’s not a “heatwave”. Get a grip! The summer of 1976 was a heatwave, something like 70 days in a row of temperatures over 30 degrees.

A couple of nice days is no excuse for a fricking panic! Unless you are the nanny government, obvs.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  Hypatia

Que the inane comments from the one show and similar brain dead programmes, such as: “it’s the hottest day since the last hottest day”.

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Norman
Norman
3 years ago

What better than Covid suppressing heat for treedom day

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago

The freedom we should be focusing on is the destruction of the Big Lie

Until that happens we are in grave trouble

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tom171uk
tom171uk
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Trouble that could lead to the grave?

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ellie-em
ellie-em
3 years ago

It can’t be freedom day yet, the three weeks aren’t up and we still need to save the NHS…

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MadJock1
MadJock1
3 years ago

On the subject of so called Freedom Day, Neil Oliver once again nails it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9CyM4HKjBY

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Epi
Epi
3 years ago
Reply to  MadJock1

Thank you just sent this to various friends and members of my family, no doubt I will get the usual silence. Still I’m not giving up even though they think I’m a pain! And yes they’ve all been double jabbed “because they want to go in holiday”. That’s working out well isn’t it.

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A Heretic
A Heretic
3 years ago

the dangers of extreme heat

good thing we’re not getting any of that then.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

Yes – if we are not careful, there will be another outbreak of Greta!

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Squire Western
Squire Western
3 years ago

No Toby, it’s not ‘freedom’ day already, but a clear indication that the public has taken matters into their own hands. If it’s hot we go to the beach – whether Johnson and Drakeford like it or not. We also have barbecues and invite whomsoever we choose.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago

At least the weather (aka warm British summer of a few days) takes the heat out the Covid warnings and gives the snivelling MSM and hapless, hopeless NHS an opportunity to pluck something else out of their Book of Warnings, Forthcoming Apocalypses and Other Terrifying Manifestations.

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
3 years ago

My freedom day began 15 months ago.
Since then, I’ve not worn a mask, been ‘vaxxed’ (with the experimental gene therapy), or kept any kind of social distancing. We’ve had friends round as we wanted, and just got on with life.
Any business that insisted on masking lost my custom, permanently.

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clem
clem
3 years ago

I was in Southend today and the percentage of outdoor masked was about 0.1%, of the thousands there could probably count on one hand the amount of masked. Even looking in the arcades there seemed to be more unmasked than masked. So hopefully this will be the sight we’ll begin to see elsewhere soon.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

Lovely summer weather.
Everybody on the beach is happy.
Eff off, Fascists, National Hell Service, Witless, Unbalanced, Pantsdown, Wankok, Bozo, Rabid Jabbid, Michie witchie,Wrinkly Little Welsh Stalin Dungford, and the whole miserable pack of them.

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Nymeria
Nymeria
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Amen to that!

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Epi
Epi
3 years ago
Reply to  Nymeria

Amen!

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“Coming in from the Azores”..

Be nice if we actually had the option of going to the Azores. I suppose the highest temperature will be at Heathrow again…
Oh, and Bournemouth’s in Hampshire. Told you I was a (real) counties extremist!

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
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A Heretic
A Heretic
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

I suppose the highest temperature will be at Heathrow again…

I’m sure it’s entirely coincidental that they put their new digital thermometers (ie ones that can pick up instantaneous changes) at the end of a runway. Of course the msm never mentions that the “omg we’re all going to die” temperatures were only recorded for a few seconds.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Bournemouth is in Dorset (since 1974)…

Last edited 3 years ago by CynicalRealist
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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

It’s a unitary local authority now. The Local Government Act that took effect in 1888 creating administrative “counties” didn’t abolish geographical counties (which predate government) and was not intended to. But I digress. Or do I? After all, this is another example of misinformation routinely unthinkingly parroted by the msm…
See Russell Grant’s book, “The Real Counties Of Britain”.
Pointless, self defeating exercise imo trying to go by these local government areas as they keep changing. People don’t bother with them much in Northern Ireland. Always the 6 counties regardless of any local government.
There was a corker on tv today about “Cumbria’s” greatest export, the Cumberland sausage – whatever Cumberland is!

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
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tom171uk
tom171uk
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

The convenience of statist bureaucrats always overrides everything else, even at the expense of destroying social identity. Just ask the proud people of Westmorland – if you can find it.

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Epi
Epi
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

There’s nothing like a good pedant and that was……..! (and before I receive any thumbs down that was meant to be a joke okay a very poor one but nonetheless)

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dhid
dhid
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Bournemouth is indeed in Dorset, and is bloody lucky that we allowed it in – young upstart that it is!

It doesn’t really deserve the privilege.

Oh, and all of “Bournemouth’s” best beaches are in fact, in Poole.

From a Dorset boy, born and bred, strong in the arm and good in bed – I prefer that version…

Last edited 3 years ago by CantBeBotheredAnymore
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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  dhid

I suppose you’re going off the police force or something (and be careful if you use the same logic with “Devonwall” police!). Definitely a unitary authority from a local government perspective. (Poole actually is in Dorset geographically).

You’re not to blame though, successive governments have trashed local identity, one suspects deliberately, (most people are confused about the issue these days), they are infested with the sort of thinking that gave us the Soviet sounding “Central” region in Scotland. That’s long gone as well…

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
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joffy69
joffy69
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

I was taught about the Azores high and the Continental high (summer/winter) in the 70s. What’s the difference?

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Matt Mounsey
Matt Mounsey
3 years ago

Got news for you Tobes, it ain’t gonna be Freedom Day til we tear down this globalist system of government or we all get raptured up into the sky.

We’re not going back to normal. Many of us have known that for a while.

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IanC
IanC
3 years ago

Oh shit its Summer again and for once we’re getting a kinda normal July / August.
FFS just let us enjoy it without the mindless moronic Shiny people on Brekky telly telling us…

Oh FFS I give up..

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago

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TheBigman
TheBigman
3 years ago

Hasn’t it been shown that even a small breeze takes the covid virus away as soon as released into the air. Also what about the heat and sunshine? They destroy many viruses. Not to mention the increased vit D making every one healthier.
This would have been encouraged if the govt cared about us and our health instead of authoritarian rule and big contracts to friends

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grob1234
grob1234
3 years ago

Very odd times.

On the one hand you have the feeling that about 90% of the public want to keep maks and so on, yet when it actually comes down to it, like Webley and Wimbledon and the beach, people don’t want to know.

I believe that about 2 weeks after the 19th, mask wearing in settings like supermarkets will drop dramatically.

Last edited 3 years ago by grob1234
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Squire Western
Squire Western
3 years ago
Reply to  grob1234

It won’t take two weeks – the masks will be off in the shops tomorrow for most people. Within a few days mask-wearing will become as socially awkward as not wearing one is now.

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grob1234
grob1234
3 years ago
Reply to  Squire Western

I very much hope so.

However, latest mask compliance in Tesco yesterday was 99%. 🙁

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Zoomer@14
Zoomer@14
3 years ago

And why not? Top up your sun starved, vitamin D deprived bodies because you are going to need it this winter.

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grob1234
grob1234
3 years ago
Reply to  Zoomer@14

What when calls for further restrictions are made, and go completely unchallenged?

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dhid
dhid
3 years ago

ATL:

“88F (31C)”

Is Toby an American, or just very old?

It should, of course, be 31C (88F).

Fahrenheit is a ridiculous scale to use from choice – water freezing at 0 C and boiling at 100 C makes far more sense that freezing at 32 F and boiling at 212 F.
IMHO obviously.

Ducks and leaves…..

Last edited 3 years ago by CantBeBotheredAnymore
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