Trains across the country have been cancelled or put on go-slow orders, schools and medical facilities have closed and people are being told to consider staying at home in the heatwave “crisis” for which the Government has issued a “red severe weather warning”, but which most of us just call summer. Here’s the Telegraph.
Blanket speed restrictions will be imposed on all railway lines, with both the train operators and Highways England warning people not to travel.
The Met Office said that “in general” it would be safer for people to stay indoors if possible.
Some GP surgeries and operating theatres have already closed as hospital bosses warned that the extreme weather made it hard to keep services running. Job centres in areas covered by the red severe weather warning will also be shut.
Schools in several counties, including Nottinghamshire and Hampshire, confirmed that they would close for two days following the health alerts. Others have reduced hours amid Met Office warnings that temperatures will soar to highs of 38C and 40C in some areas.
The UK’s first red extreme heat warning covers a large swathe of England from London to Manchester and York for both Monday and Tuesday and the UK Health Security Agency issued a heat health warning at level four, which is described as a “national emergency”.
Tracy Nicholls, the chief executive of the College of Paramedics, warned that the “ferocious heat” could kill people.
But Dominic Raab, the deputy prime minister, said the country should be resilient enough to withstand the pressures brought by the heat and urged people to “enjoy the sunshine” as long as they take “common sense” precautions.
David Davis, a senior Tory backbencher, said: “Obviously, if you’re at risk, if you’re a young child or elderly or you have some other condition, take care and obviously use hats and sunscreen and use the shade. But people exist in Mediterranean climes and handle it. So, if we use common sense we can do the same.”
Another senior Tory MP said he thought the public health messaging was “grossly inflated and scaremongering of the worst kind”.
I note that the forecast already seems to have been lowered to 38°C.
At the Daily Sceptic we want to put the forecasts to the test and invite any readers who have an outdoor thermometer (in the shade) to send in the temperature readings throughout the afternoon (and then again tomorrow). You can either put them in the comments below or email us here. If you know what the forecast was for your area then mention that as well so it’ll be easy to compare. Don’t forget to include your location. If you don’t have a thermometer you could use the current reading (not the forecast) from your phone weather app (mine currently, at 2:30pm in Warwickshire, says 37°C; the forecast yesterday was 39°C), though if it’s from an app rather than a thermometer do mention that.
We’ll see how close it really gets across the country to the 40-plus degrees predicted.
Stop Press: Plenty of replies to the post promoting this article on Twitter. Check them out.
Some replies by email:
- “BBC forecast was for a max of 40C, actual max Barbican City of London 33C.”
- “Rickmansworth. Met Office forecast 36. BBC Forecast 37. Actual Max outside my house (sensor connected to central heating system) 32.9 and cooling down a bit now.”
- “Colchester 17:00. Outside temperature in the shade 35C Forecast from the xc weather site was max 37C.”
- “The following temperature measurements were taken outside in the shade in Welburn, York this afternoon. The Met office forecast for the same location and time are in brackets: 14:00 28.8C (31C); 15:00 28.5C (32C); 16:00 29.1C (33C); 17:00 29.5C (34C).”
- “BBC predicted 34°c at 4pm, and 35°c at 5pm. Actual temperature taken in our garden in the shade at 4.10pm was 30.1°C”
- “Outside to the NE of the house it was 33.5°C in the shade at 16.30 h. The Met. Office forecast for Shobdon (5 km away) at 17.00 h was 35°C.”
- “Bolton Greater Manchester outside thermometer appears to have peaked out at 30.5C. Daily Mail prediction for Manchester 34C!”
- “Peaked at 31C at approximately 3:30pm on shaded north side of brick built house. Rural location, Dorset.”
- “Daventry, at one point 40 was forecast, downgraded to 38 this morning, now downgraded again to 36 and [at 5pm] we are still below on 34.”
- “Lavenham Suffolk. 5pm 33 deg Celsius on outdoor thermometer. Current max temp is 33. In the shade.”
- “Right now [at 4:30pm], weather.com says it’s about 33° down the road from the mothballed Plymouth Airport. I’ve checked the temperature with my thermometer and it’s about right.”
- “St Ives, Cambs: shade thermometer at 16.00 hrs is 34.5C. BBC weather site says 37C. Funny, because normally the BBC and my thermometer are within 1°C.”
- “16:00 temperature in Stroud = 36.2 degrees Celsius. In the shade. Outside.”
- “Rainhill, Merseyside, in the shade. Forecast 34 celsius at 3pm. Actual 30 degrees at 3pm.”
- “Owslebury, Hampshire, 29 degrees on my wall thermometer [at 3pm]. Met Office prediction was 31.”
- “Portsmouth via weather app on iPhone [at 3pm] 28 Deg.”
- “14:50. Back garden, Tidworth, Wiltshire: 34 Degrees measured with thermistor linked to multi-meter.”
- “38C at 1450 on our max/min thermometer at rural Watford Gap, Northants. Device is in the shade, north/east facing.”
- “St Ives, Cambs: shade thermometer at 14.25 hrs was 33C. Forecast/BBC weather tells me we are 35C heading for 37-38C”
- “14.25 BST in Temple Cowley, Oxford: North facing location outside, away from buildings and concrete, in the shade: 32 degrees Celsius.”
- “31 degrees here in Gittisham, East Devon [at 2pm].”
- “My favourite weathercam site with a sophisticated weather station has 28C recorded against Met Office’s 33C at 1400.”
- “Outside air temp at 2pm was 27C near Cockermouth, Cumbria. Met Office app gives me 28C, BBC Weather says 27C.”
- “It’s 30 degrees (via car thermometer) in Bradford / Leeds [at 12:45]. Forecast was for low 30s so not too far off.”
- “The temperature in central Paris at 14:10 is 31C (in the shade). They told us it would be 40 today… still a few hours left, I suppose.”
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Meanwhile, the comments below the DT hit piece on Geert Wilders are overwhelmingly in favour of this development.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/23/geert-wilders-so-radical-banned-from-uk-dutch-elections/
Far Right when used by the leftist zealots is meaningless. Tommy Robinson is not the devil, his Oxford Union address from 8 years back is thoughtful, powerful and worryingly on-the-nose regarding what we’ve been seeing here since October 7th.
Suella Braverman was correct. We do have a two-tier police system.
For those who have never watched the TR Oxford Union address, it is extremely interesting and thoughtfully presented – highly recommended. It was a classic example of a ‘deplorable’ surprising his audience with an unusual degree of moral courage and honesty. His recent film ‘Silenced’ is also a must-see, if you can find it. Telling the truth very definitely makes one an ‘Enemy of the State’, if it involves race or religion… or Covid.
I’ll never understand why anyone would still harbour any expectations of the current political system being there for the people. Seriously, stop it.
“New Home Secretary is Not Grasping the Scale of Public Anger on Immigration”
The last one did, that’s why they got rid of her!
He does have a firm grasp on Serco and its very lucrative payments into his bank account to keep the flood gates wide open.
She hasn’t resigned from the party though has she.
The fact it takes so long to publish the data and it is then found to be seriously in error says a lot about the incompetence which is rife throughout government.
Private businesses big and small have to produce accurate financial data with many more moving parts that the immigration numbers. Government controls (sic) and issues Ann visas and it runs the Borders Force (double six) so why can’t they run the numbers the first day after month end?
In addition to the suggestions for control, make it work permits not immigration visas. If Borders have no record of timely departure send out to find them and chuck them out with a fine and re-entry ban. Their sponsors would also be penalised and prevented from sponsoring again.
Globalist = Remainer = open borders = cheap labour = happy CEOs = more political donations
Honestly this is beyond the pale. We are talking about numbers that will have real time serious detrimental effects on peoples lives and millions are already in a sitution of crisis with rising rent and mortgage costs. Of course in this instance they know what they are doing. Some people use the word ‘treason’ but it is much much worse than that. This isn’t an act of sedition it is the expectation that the population will just sit back and do nothing as everything about their country and culture is destroyed. Are they going to build half a million new houses every year or provide for the rises in healthcare and education demands? Obviously not; no extra funding even for local authoritites hit hardest. This is utterly disgusting. I don’t understand why any faith in the political class persists.
if anyone remonstrating against mass immigration isn’t by now a member and activist of a centre Right party can we take them seriously? If in conversation with acquaintances and they start grumbling about immigration and its effects I ask them what they are doing about it; hushed silence follows with the clearing of throats the an admission that they are doing nothing . I politely then ask then ask ‘why not?’ Silence and then they usually change the subject.
Despite us all getting behind Geert for his stance on limiting immigration over here, in reality his hands are pretty tied as to what he can do in practice due to EU laws. Massively frustrating, to say the least;
”Dutch voters gave Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration platform a historic win at the ballot box this week. But, under existing laws, very little the PVV says it will do about migrants is possible.
“The Netherlands has hope… the people of the Netherlands will get their country back and the tsunami of refugees and immigrants will be limited,” Wilders told a cheering crowd at a Scheveningen cafe after the announcement of the general election results on Wednesday night.
But unless the Netherlands leaves the European Union, the Council of Europe and UN conventions, Wilders’ options are limited.
“There’s basically nothing he can do that won’t get shot down by the courts,” says Jeremy Bierbach, an immigration lawyer in Amsterdam.
The vast majority of migration law, from students to refugees, falls under the the European Union. And, despite what the PVV’s party programmes claims, countries cannot simply opt out.
Wilders, who has been in politics since 2006, is almost certainly aware that his policies are at odds with existing law. He could try to push forward with them anyway and then blame judges for being at odds with the will of the people, something that’s already been seen in Britain and the United States.
Or, Wilders could convince the country to “Nexit” the EU, the Council of Europe and the various United Nations treaties he doesn’t like. While his probable coalition partners may share some of his anti-immigration views, they don’t share his isolationism.
It took five years for the Britain to leave the European Union. Even Rutte was unable to keep a coalition together for that long.”
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/wilders-immigration-platform-mostly-not-legally-possible/
On the last article on Wilders just yesterday the Sceptic seems to have decided to allow no more comments. ——This is the first time I have seen that on Daily Sceptic. I hope they have not had their fingers rapped, and I am hoping it is just an anomaly in my own browser. ——Maybe you can let me know if you have noticed this. —Cheers.
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Thanks for your reply. Even though you have decided not to say WHY you took the decision to take no further comments on this article. ——-But that is ok because I have a pretty good idea. We all must watch our p’s and q’s regarding speech on this issue. ———–This is what Wilders is trying to explain to everyone. All it takes for evil things to occur is for good people to remain silent. Silencing people who tell the truth is not a good way forward.
Like Britain those on the centre Right are possibly reluctant to get involved in activism unlike the Left who relish activism and know it is the only way to get your way.
We might have to face a grim reality in the acceptnce that is is already too late. But that doesn’t necessarily mean total defeat just a re-examination of what victory might look like. That is the most important thing. You might say we gained victory with the vax, I think that one is in the bag, but that victory represents a higher victory and maybe if enough people achieve it then immigration could solve itself given that most people prefer to live in the land that they hail from. Free-thinking became a necessity for many. There is a serious issue though at the moment with the depletion of the workforce due to vax injuries and other people having to care for the vax-injured. Immigration can solve some of these issues. At the lower end it can make up menial and manual labour and at the higher end there are plenty of science graduates in the developing world who are lookng for a job. But you can’t replace those who work in jobs which require a high level of communicative competence. It is such cold and cynical model that most people have a hard time even believeing that it prevails.
The political establishment all over Europe know. ——-They do everything they can to silence and suppress and pretend mass immigration is not causing massive problems. Especially if you are a women or girl walking alone. They are complicit in the abuse of their own women because they put multicultural dogma and one world government FIRST.
What connection, emotionally or culturally, does the New Home Secretary have to these islands?
This is the danger of popular culture. Lets say the television news told you up until 2007 that the neoliberal dream was the end of all strife. I am not joking there were even books that talked about that era as the end of history. And then lets say you found out later that you were sold a bill of goods. If you’re a canny person you won’t have any problems following intellectual trends and finding a niche. For most people this was never an option. They went to work, received good news when they heard it because it was always rare, they hoped that if they worked hard enough and everyone did their bit that it would be alright. Didn’t turn out that way but we have been subjected to a hundred years of scientifically-crafted propaganda. We should be happy that there is any dissent left at all.
Cleverly is a bog-standard thick-as-mince and utterly corrupt grifter.
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There is no economic need for any immigration.
Mehmet is being far too weak.
They always have been at MigrationWatch.
The numbers next year will be even higher. For one thing they need to disguise the drop out disability figures and this is the best way to do it. Honestly where will you draw the line? 2 million a year? A doctor’s appointment in three month’s time? Seriously I am a British person but I have lived in other countries and if this was going on in any one of them there would be revolution overnight. Why the masochism? Okay you feel bad about the empire but this is just too much.
https://x.com/goldingbf/status/1727990820521869602?s=48&t=z-QEFmo-T7EyF1VraAWbsg
Rubbin our firkin noses in their shyte.
Is Cleverly just another race baiting, anti White person? He sees no problem with the indigenous people of these islands being invaded and overwhelmed by people who have no connections with our culture or traditions. I suspect that, deep down, he doesn’t like us but pretends so he can infiltrate the system of power.
He, and others, had better beware. We are angry. Ireland is a warning.
They really don’t want the world to see what’s going on…
Isreal murder 60 journalists/press in 60 days.
https://youtu.be/8pNt3VZuqP8?si=VdwZbp-Ub1QxdTWR
Yes all you down tickers, this IS what the Israeli state does..
This IS what the terrorist state of Israel does but you refuse to accept it.
JFK….murdered by CIA Israel/Mossad.
911. CIA Israel/Mossad
7th Oct.. CIA /Israel Mossad.
https://cpj.org/2023/11/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/
As of November 25, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 53 journalists and media workers were among the more than 15,000 killed since the war began on October 7—with over 14,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel. The second-deadliest day for journalist deaths occurred on November 18, with five killed; the deadliest day of the war was its first day, October 7, with 6 journalists killed.
This isn’t a failure, it’s deliberate.
The Globalist project to level down the Western nations to 2nd world levels …… whilst trying to raise the 3rd world to 2nd world levels with money extracted from Western nations …. is working a treat.
Just import millions of 3rd worlders and the job is done.
Our nations’ societies are being deliberately destroyed by the importation of millions of poor immigrants who will NEVER make a genuine contribution and you are being deliberately impoverished.
Cleverly by name but not by nature!
He looks like a vacant empty vessel!
Acts like one too, no one home? “Hello” knock knock, “hello!?”
They know precisely what they are doing! The problem is no matter who you vote for the result will be the same. For decades people have been demanding less immigration and every party who comes to office claims they will do something about it then reneges on their policies. When will people believe me when I say democracy is a sham?
Remember – If voting changed anything they’d abolish it!
“The problem is no matter who you vote for the result will be the same.”
Yes, correct if you vote for establishment parties.
Nobody needs to vote for establishment parties who is concerned about mass immigration and its effects on our society, our prosperity, our general happiness and security.