Posted on 07/11/2025 5:28:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin
More than seven million people had hosepipe bans imposed on them as temperatures soared in the UK's third heatwave of 2025.
Astwood Bank in the West Midlands recorded the highest temperature of 34.7C by 18:00 BST on Friday, while Wales saw its hottest day of the year with 32.7C recorded in Usk.
Amber heat health alerts for southern England, the Midlands, and East Anglia were issued on Friday and will remain in place until Monday, the UK Health Security Agency said.
Less severe yellow warnings remain in place for northern England, while Scotland and Northern Ireland face warnings of wildfires on Saturday and Sunday.
Yellow weather alerts are issued during periods that are only likely to affect those who are particularly vulnerable, such as the elderly, and those with existing health conditions. Amber alerts are issued in situations that could put the whole population at risk.
Yorkshire Water's hosepipe ban came into effect on Friday, affecting customers across much of Yorkshire, parts of north Lincolnshire, and areas of Derbyshire.
South East Water, which has also introduced a hosepipe ban, said demand for drinking water had "reached record levels" since May due to the extended spell of warm and dry weather in the region.
It added that it was continuing to monitor the situation in its Western region, where it serves customers in parts of Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.
A hosepipe ban could include restrictions on certain activities like watering gardens, washing cars, or filling up paddling pools, and people who break the ban could face a fine.
The weather alert service warns the public in England when high or low temperatures could damage their health or lead to disruption to critical public services.
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When I was young much of Albany, New York was under elm tree canopies in the summertime.
There were Elm trees on our street. Then came Dutch Elm disease and by the end of a summer they had all been cut down.
Heartbreaking. They were 50-60 feet tall. Beautiful trees.
I grew up seven miles north of Albany, New York. The house I lived in before I went off to college did not have air conditioning. I was ten years old before my father put in AC in my aunt’s summer camp.
Being in the shade is quite tolerable in the Florida summer for me in terms of temperature. The gnats were vicious before sunset when I was mowing my backyard.
I recall from my time stationed in the UK, they had a hose-pipe tax, a window screen tax, a TV tax and, of course, the “Poll Tax.” I don’t recall whether or not the UK had a radio tax but Germany did.
If there is a hose-pipe ban imposed, will you still have to pay your hose-pipe tax?
I’d get a kiddie pool...
I believe you’ve mixed up two different Jimmy Stewart movies, Winchester 73 and Carbine Williams- the latter has the prison scenes IIRC.
I’ll check. Didn’t remember Carbine Williams or at least the title.
For sure you were correct. Saw the movie on TV as a kid but forgot the title.
> I’d get a kiddie pool... <
Good idea! I actually thought of that. There’s another post here on Free Republic about how a mob of “youths” invaded a community pool in the US, and started fighting.
Why put up with that? As you said, get a kiddie pool. Put on some oldies music. I like 60s folk rock. Your taste might be different. Then enjoy the cool water without any distractions.
Don't ask your server for a napkin at the restaurant. You want a serviette.
Thanks. Do you have an english to english translator app?
They’re surrounded by water yet they can’t figure out how to have enough water? Haven’t they heard of desalination?
Sedans are “saloons”, and wagons are “estates”. Also, a center-mounted parking brake is a “handbrake”, turn signals are “indicators”, tachometers are “rev counters”, ad nauseam.
Ironically, we’re the ones preserving the English language.
I used to dream, and I used to vow
I wouldn’t dream of it now
We look to Los Angeles
For the language we use
London is dead, London is dead
London is dead, London is dead
London is dead, London is dead
-Morrissey
We and the Brits are separated by a common language ;-) But “hosepipe” is one of the funniest words of all!
Then at night...my bro and I would catch worms and sell them for a penny a piece at the bait shop. We always picked 300 at a time.
Then we'd go to the soda shop and get a huge ice cream cone for 5 cents.
This was mid 50's...life was good.
I was working in Belgium and spotted an anti-drunk driving campaign poster. It was in French. I went by the mini-mart at SHAPE and purchased a French-English dictionary. I tossed the dictionary in my backpack for later reading after work. When I looked up the French word, the English translation was "bloke". Not helpful GB English, not US English.
LOL. My sister was doing her Masters at Liverpool and lived in the UK for a few years. I was working in the Mideast then and would take a lot of my R&R trips there. We’d usually meet up in London for a few days and then go somewhere else for a few more days such as Yorkshire, Cornwall, Ireland, Chester (where she was living…)
I picked up the lingo in those days. :)
> This was mid 50’s...life was good. <
Yes. I was there, too. It was the Golden Age of America. And I’ll fist-fight anyone who thinks differently!
Eisenhower was president. So we had a steady hand at the tiller. Ike was keeping the world at peace. And he was slowly but surely breaking down the racial barriers in the South.
And you could get a good union job right out of high school. In my neck of the woods three huge steel mills were always hiring. And so was the railroad. As Billy Joel said in his song “Allentown”:
Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
What the heck is a ‘hosepipe’?
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