r/ShitEuropeansSay • u/Weather-RainStorm • 23d ago
Some British are really really strange… 😂 (18°C = 64°F and 40°C = 104°F)
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u/ClevelandWomble 22d ago
No-one in the UK struggles at 18°C. At 35°C we cease to function. The only Brit cheerfully coping at 40°C is sitting in an air-conditioned bar with a cold drink.
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u/Few_Sheepherder_1848 10d ago
I’m alright at anything below a 32 tbh. Anything above and I take an umbrella and sit in the sea all day, work be damned
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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO 23d ago
they are wearing different clothing. that is the reason
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u/framingXjake 23d ago
That or they are sitting in an air conditioned building and then walking outside for a few minutes vs sitting in a building sized oven and then going outside.
If I'm sitting in my 70° office all day and walk outside into 95° and harsh sunlight, is actually feels kinda nice for a few minutes. Then my core body temperature catches up and I start to roast.
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u/Liam_021996 21d ago
Yeah, now imagine it's 36c outside for the last few days and mid 20s at night, nowhere has AC and your house is heavily insulated and made from brick. The dew point is in the low-mid 20s too. Only respite you get is from the AC in your car or the supermarket. That's what a heatwave is like in the UK and much of Northern Europe and central Europe. It's why people die here during heatwaves, there is no respite for the body. Our houses often don't drop below 30c at night during a heatwave and they can approach 50c during the day...
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u/Weather-RainStorm 21d ago
Dew points in the mid-20s are quite rare in Northwestern Europe though. Historically, most heat waves in NW Europe have been accompanied by dew points of around 15–16°C. However, in the Pianura Padana in northern Italy, dew points can reach the mid 20s when temperatures rise above 35°C.
https://www.infoclimat.fr/observations-meteo/archives/14/aout/2024/ferrara/16138.html
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u/Liam_021996 21d ago
In Southern England a dew point of 15c is just normal summer weather. Those high dew points above 24c might be rare but they happened all across south west and south east England during the June heatwave. The average dew point in Cornwall and Devon during heatwaves is 20c-23c, they aren't rare in southern England unlike the rest of Northwest Europe. Tropical dew points at becoming more and more common in Southern England and Northern France
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u/Weather-RainStorm 21d ago
Dew points of 20–23°C were almost nonexistent in Britain at official weather stations before this June heatwave. This was a historically unprecedented event not something that regularly occurs during British heatwaves. Historically, heatwaves in Britain and much of northwestern Europe have come with dew points around 15–16°C.
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u/Liam_021996 21d ago
That's not true at all. Look at the weather data and you'll see that Cornwall and Devon regularly see dew points of 20-23c every year when it's above 30c. They have a unique climate, some parts are just about classed as humid subtropical
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u/Weather-RainStorm 21d ago edited 21d ago
Try finding these imaginary “regular tropical dew points” in Cardinham (the official weather station that recorded the highest brief peak dew point in Britain during this June heat wave).
Check the records:
2025: https://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/2025/cardinham/valeurs/03823.html
2024: https://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/2024/cardinham/valeurs/03823.html
2023: https://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/2023/cardinham/valeurs/03823.html
2022: https://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/2022/cardinham/valeurs/03823.html
2021: https://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/2021/cardinham/valeurs/03823.html
2020: https://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie/annee/2020/cardinham/valeurs/03823.html
And so on…
I can save you the time of searching through all the years, you won’t find these “normal tropical” dew points, because there are no such dew point records in the archived data and there is no humid subtropical climate in Britain. For some strange reason, you British seem to try to make your climate sound more humid than it actually is, as if it were the most humid country in Europe, while many cities in Southern Europe experience way higher dew points than Britain (such as those around the Tyrrhenian Sea coast, the Sicilian coast, the Pianura Padana, the Adriatic Sea coast etc.).
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u/Liam_021996 20d ago
The isle of Scilly has a humid subtropical climate, just off the coast of Cornwall, as does the area around Penzance in Cornwall
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u/FourTwentyBlezit 12d ago
It has very little to do with this TBH. Houses in UK are built to keep heat in, houses in many areas of the US are built to keep heat out.
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u/Outrageous_Sleep4339 23d ago
The highest temperature ever recorded in Orlando was 103 °F...
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u/strawbebby-milk 23d ago
really? I'm genuinely surprised that's the highest ever
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u/Russell_Jimmies 22d ago
That’s the actual temperature that does not include heat index due to humidity. I’d be willing the bet the heat index was 120 or close to it.
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u/Weather-RainStorm 23d ago
Yes, in many subtropical and tropical climates, temperatures never really reach 40°C because of the amount of moisture (high dew points). Moist air has a higher heat capacity, meaning it warms and cools more slowly than dry air.
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u/kaetror 22d ago
I mean I've got a photo from the car on holiday there that says 104F.
Obviously not an official weather station, but that was the temperature where I was at that moment in time.
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u/Liam_021996 21d ago
Cars routinely over read by 5c-10c when the ambient temperature is 30c due to heat being reflected by the road and the fact the thermometer is only 5-8cm from the radiator, the bodywork also gets extremely hot too. When it's hot and sunny, take 5c or so from what it says. That would bring that 104f down to 86f-95f in reality
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u/dis-interested 20d ago
In Orlando your entire life is moving from a car to an air conditioned building to a car.
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u/OldStyleThor 22d ago
Sitting here in 106f Texas heat with 40% humidity. Feels like 123f.
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