Major incident declared across London after 'huge surge' in fires and homes destroyed on UK's hottest-ever day

news.sky.com ^ | 20 July 2022 | SKY News

[maddog55]

Hot days don’t cause fires.

[Winniesboy]

I’d be pleased to see your evidence that 100°+ was ever confirmed by a recognised weather station in the UK before 25th July 2019, when 38.7C (101.6F) was recorded at Cambridge Botanic Gardens.

Apologies - memory playing tricks. Correction - The first observation to top 100° was in Faversham, Kent in 2003 (38.5C). The Cambridge observation was the highest before yesterday.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

When the data is against you, you change the data.

That’s how it’s done.

[ifinnegan]

In 1915 or so it hit 98°.

No way that’s not within margin of error compared to today.

[ifinnegan]

You seem to be of the opinion it means something, eg confirms global warming etc...

If I’m wrong, say so.

[mowowie]

Reminds me of the week I spent in upstate Vermont...

[metmom]

Nope, someone started them all and it’s just a matter of figuring out who.

[Winniesboy]

You’re reading more into my posts than I intended or implied. I made, and make, no comment about any relationship with long-term climate trends. My observations are restricted to confirmed records in the modern (century-scale) era.

[butlerweave]

A firefighter friend of mine said Friday they get a lot of calls , people get paid ,get drunk and then decide to cook something on the stove and forget about then bingo a fire

[Wuli]

“homes destroyed on UK’s hottest-ever day” in modern record keeping

[Churchillspirit]

Logic and facts at last!

[Churchillspirit]

The readings are taken at 10a.m. daily. Fires started later.

I was watching Sky News when a small brush fire escalated and engulfed several homes in London.

[ridesthemiles]

I have never lived in a home with air conditioning.

NOW 82...still trucking

Local temps over 100 for past week & forecast == 100+ for next 8 days

[Winniesboy]

Turns out that the Wennington fire (possibly the one you saw) started with the spontaneous combustion of a garden compost heap!

[SpaceBar]

It’s the will of Allah.

[Churchillspirit]

Yep. That's the one.

My Dad was a keen gardener so there was always a decent compost heap around. Although never a fire risk in Northumberland!

[BlackVeil]

It has now cooled off in London - max temperatures back around 26c, and it is raining. But the media don’t bother to report that.

[ifinnegan]

Thanks.

It’s Orwellian propaganda with a nefarious purpose.

[Winniesboy]

The Met Office has now produced a detailed statistical summary of the events of July 18/19, which gives a clearer picture of the immediate causes, the extent of anomalies across the UK, the chronological relationship with previous recorded extremes, and other detailed data.

Met Office post event report