GOD SAVE THE QUEEN: UK Grinds To A Halt Amid ‘Brutal’ 30ºC Heatwave

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July 19, 2016

Look, real talk here: There’s nothing we Australians love more than scoffing at the other countries when they whinge about summer heat.

Particularly when it’s the UK doing it.

And particularly when that “heat” they’re sooking about is a couple of 27 degree days in a row.

London and the rest of the UK is currently dealing with what local officials are calling a “heatwave,” the likes of which officials out here would call “a below-average week in early November.”

Temperatures have finally reached summer proportions in the Commonwealth motherland, with the mercury topping out at a stomach churning THIRTY FOUR DEGREES in certain parts of the country.

The Met Office in the UK issued a heat map of the country and it… uh… looks like this.

Tomorrow sees the peak of the #heat with highs of 34 °C! pic.twitter.com/g992IdRF66

— Met Office (@metoffice) July 18, 2016

They also warned of thunderstorms that would accompany this ungodly ~heat~, with “intense downpours” to follow.

Downpours that look like this.

Very warm and moist air will trigger localised #thunderstorms and intense downpours tomorrow and into Wednesdayhttps://t.co/mwlea9YJC6

— Met Office (@metoffice) July 18, 2016

Regardless, the UK is not coping with it very well at all.

The season’s hottest day of the season has caused UK Labour MP Linda Riordan to table a proposed law that would require bosses to send staff home if their workplace exceeded 30 degrees, and 27 degrees if the work being completed was “strenuous,” which is some bold-faced bullshit given that urban legend about schools in Australia being closed if the temperature got over 35 or whatever.

And on Twitter, the reaction’s been even funnier.

Classrooms be like #heatwave pic.twitter.com/iM2LjqBUXk

— Henry Gallagher (@HenryGallagherx) July 18, 2016

It’s meant to be 29°c outside. That’s at least 25°c too hot for me. #heatwave

— Bessemer (@Bessemerband) July 18, 2016

I.AM.MELTING IN THIS #heatwave ?? pic.twitter.com/GwJNTuLF0F

— Tara Carroll (@Tara_Gigabyte) July 18, 2016

I’ll have to run faster next time to catch the ice cream van #heatwave ???? pic.twitter.com/Mea75NGJpI

— Nicola Adams MBE (@NicolaAdams2012) July 18, 2016

Don’t want to overstate this #heatwave but tonight could be a night where you forget to bring in something from outside and it would be ok.

— Colm O’Regan (@colmoregan) July 18, 2016

Just going to sleep in here tonight. ?? #heatwave pic.twitter.com/8jRdeeGZaB

— Tony Shepherd (@tonysheps) July 18, 2016

when it’s past 20°c in the uk #heatwave pic.twitter.com/oMeJzGEGLb

— daddy s (@congratulester) July 18, 2016

As the #heatwave continues in the UK tomorrow, this “Sunburn Bingo Card” may come in handy… pic.twitter.com/QRuOa3jR9A

— Channel 4 (@Channel4) July 18, 2016

Irish people during the #heatwave pic.twitter.com/xVK7cYnOWm

— Mary Mc Intyre (@Mc1988) July 18, 2016

The Irish weren’t designed for this sort of weather. #heatwave #ImDying pic.twitter.com/XsxsxmSIKe

— Saoirse (@Saoirseeeee) July 18, 2016

Admit it. You’re cocky-as-hell looking at all this and reminiscing about the time it got so hot your roof melted and you slept on burning coals just to cool off.

The UK can barely cope with an above-average winter’s day. Meanwhile here we all are in the middle of January dealing with the literal surface of the sun all like:

Weather smugness. It’s our national birthright.

Source: Twitter.

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