The Hottest Place in Britain, and the BBC Theme Park

www.tomscott.com - / tomscott - On Swanscombe Peninsula sits Gravesend Weather Station: a Met Office station that consistently records the hottest temperatures in the UK. Is it particularly warm there? Or have they put it in the wrong place? And what'll happen when they have to make room for Paramount London, the coming BBC-linked theme park?

[@marinepilotchris3048]

Fun fact, the ship at 1:49 is called the City of Westminster, and I used to be Captain of it!

[@ezekielmartin4323]

Wow! That's so cool! Were you the captain when this was filmed?

[@marinepilotchris3048]

@@ezekielmartin4323 Possibly. I worked on the ship from 2012 to 2016, and did a rotation of 2 weeks onboard and then 2 weeks leave, during which time another Captain took over from me. So, I guess there’s a 50/50 chance I was actually onboard when this was filmed.

[@ezekielmartin4323]

@@marinepilotchris3048 That's awesome!

[@TesserId]

That is a fun fact. Any stories to tell?

[@eagle_vision_13]

8 years later: Captain! Iceberg dead ahead!

[@MagisterMalleus]

Richard Hammond rollercoaster: 15 seconds, 300mph, and six months in intensive care.

[@naota3k]

LOL

[@theinsanitypenguin]

Jeremy Clarkson rollercoaster you must be at least this racist to ride

[@BlackMagixFTW]

Jeremy clarksons roller coaster: POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

[@theinsanitypenguin]

BlackMagixFTW always ends on a bombshell

[@YensR]

The weirdest roller coaster... ...in the woooorld!

[@buttersddragon]

So about that theme park...

[@NightMind0]

Not yet.

[@duncanmunro640]

Butters the DoppelDragon What?

[@TheQuentinSK8]

2024

[@NightMind0]

@@TheQuentinSK8 In 5 years? Multiplying the promise by 3 I think I'll be booking the flight about summer 2035

[@xJackkHD]

Duncan Munro were you watching?

[@BatJeff]

"In 5 years i might be walking down here" *laughs in 2020*

[@Cl0ckcl0ck]

Paramount pulled out in 2017. They are probably still celebrating that decision today.

[@maxesp0523]

@@Cl0ckcl0ck Now its The London Resort, it seems like they might actually build it.

[@rrp6405]

That theme park would have been a fantastic place not to go to in 2020

[@reddragon3132]

According to a Google search it'll open in 2024. So don't expect anything until a few years after that

[@ditzfough]

Jan 2021 here

[@courtney-ray]

From 5 years in the future: no theme park yet

[@Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan]

11 days of 6 years now

[@paperbucket8071]

They are starting talks again. It stopped for so long because paramount pulled out, but they have new partners.

[@kaibayashi_gaming]

Haha, just watched this and had to check out the comments/google maps to see what was going on with it!!

[@paperbucket8071]

If anyone is interested, they just sent a planning application to the government, and hope to have it open by 2025.

[@ultimaavalon]

Scrolled down to see if anyone had a "In 5 or 6 years time" update. Thanks

[@Shawn4168]

Seems appropriate that KZbin recommended this to me almost exactly 6 years later. Looks like there's still nothing yet.

[@FruitLoops_]

"In 5 to 6 years time I might be walking down here on a nicely paved path" *The project being delayed to 2025*

[@MePeterNicholls]

Yeh. That hasn’t happened yet

[@HanabiraKage]

I looked it up, and apparently the deal with Paramount fell through so they've had to look for another partner.

[@sabaducia]

Thanks for the update

[@alext7667]

@@HanabiraKage Actually interesting information, thanks!

[@glipk]

Cool

[@ToadRoach]

A mischievous way to combat global warming; Move all the weather stations to cooler areas!

[@AgentTasmania]

The Republican party is listening

[@hughseager5691]

Don't understand why people are comparing Australia to the UK. The UK is in Northern Europe so 38C is insanely hot for us. Australia is hotter, we get it!

[@big1016]

Nah we approach 50 and we are like oath thats a bit hot ay lets go have a sausage sandwich and a cold lemonade and walk it off

[@marzabow1111]

melbourne struggles to get to 25c on most days

[@EebstertheGreat]

-2 C is not cold. I imagine if you got a foot of snow in Morocco, you would find that very troublesome. Does that mean I should sneer at you because that happens a lot in my state and isn't a big deal? You also live in one of the hottest places on Earth, so it's not exactly a fair comparison.

[@johonanandrewgomes7593]

El Mahdi Ettaleb here in Canada parts average -60c with windchill

[@ala0284]

El Mahdi Ettaleb -2 isn’t that cold the uk record is -27 and it’s below freezing most days in January

[@karl9460]

"6 years time, I might be walking down here" with a face mask, gloves and hand sanitiser.

[@buddyclem7328]

And a hard hat, a hi-vis vest, and steel-toed boots. Why? Because they still haven't started construction.

[@tomfriel2728]

I want a David Attenborough ride

[@feargalb7913]

Ridey McRideface

[@joshuahadams]

+FergieTheSeagull don't google that.

[@whatdidijustmakeedits657]

Josh Adams Leeandlie is great

[@coreywilliams1454]

I want to ride David Attenborough.

[@IneptOrange]

Josh Adams Certainly google that.

[@Gribbo9999]

I see lots of comments that 38°C is not so hot. Problem is the UK generally has high humidity with any heat so itoften feels really a fair bit hotter than 40°C+ commonly experienced in, say, Australia with a relative humidity of 20-30%. I remember getting out of the pool in Alice Springs when the temperature was in the high 30s and actually feeling chilly for a couple of minutes as the evaporation cooled me off. I actually live in the humid tropics where 35°C is unusually hot but fairly unbearable as the humidity is often 80% + . The other problem with Britain is that it feels really hot because buildings aren't designed for heat ( few external window awnings for example) and, being in high latitudes, even the midday summer sun tends to slant through south facing windows into poorly ventilated rooms.

[@alexknj1]

By the time that theme park gets made, we'll have actual TARDIS technology to put in it.

[@minenetchamipon1427]

except is isnt possible, because time cant go backwards

[@hannah42069]

@@minenetchamipon1427 good job cleverclogs

[@buddyclem7328]

The U.S. travelling exhibit in the 80s wasn't bad. It was built into a truck/lorry trailer. I bought some souvenirs, and of course some Jelly Babies.

[@djhokage1]

The KZbin algorithm was spot on with this one. - This comment was written on the 15th of december 2020

[@jamesjfk1786]

I live in Swanscombe, the village, around a mile south of this weather station and cycle down that path every weekend, it's weird to think that Tom has been there. (There's still no theme park)

[@apfwilliams]

The Gravesend weather site has been decommissioned According to met office weather studio live 8th Oct 2019

[@mediocrefunkybeat]

Living about a couple of miles from the site, I can assure you that Gravesend sometimes gets seriously hot in the summer. I remember in the summer of 2003 when the record at that time was beaten walking along the promenade and rowing down the river. That just about killed me.

[@Dynastone]

Duncan Taylor I miss the warm summers of kent.

[@nuggie5522]

Where I live in Australia we have temperatures up to 50 degrees Celsius

[@Dynastone]

@@nuggie5522 you have air conditioning.

[@nuggie5522]

@@Dynastone pffft only last year did I get air conditioning also our schools don't have air conditioning

[@franchufranchu119]

@@Dynastone Air conditioning is super expensive. Fans are cheaper.

[@prosincr]

Top Gear... So sad

[@jordan3012000]

ikr

[@charliedixon9724]

at least we have the grand tour to look forward to, all for the price of your BBC internet licence.

[@BrightSpark]

It's a sad, sad situation

[@CJT3X]

Aaaand Top Gear is dead. Whatever the BBC is trying to do with that name will never work.

[@konchatzi]

To shreds you say?...

[@roundel52]

Pity Paramount have pulled out of this, but the theme park is allegedly still going ahead. Roll on 2023!

[@NightMind0]

They were pulled back in

[@lyrimetacurl0]

Probably delaying due to coronavirus

[@Ma_Zhongying]

Any year other than 2020 would be nice.

[@HolyKhaaaaan]

Be careful what you wish for.

[@intrapt]

It'll be delayed even more if/when WW3 starts this year

[@mikeybraps2705]

0:19 38 degrees I wish it was that cool today in the UK

[@BoyProdigyX]

In 2017, Paramount pulled out, and in 2022 the BBC and ITV followed suit. A month later, the application for the London Resort project was officially pulled, though with plans to reapply a year later. As of March 2023, it isn't looking good, as the company responsible, London Resort Company Holdings, is currently in administration (a form of bankruptcy in England).

[@saghirhussain4360]

Spoilers!

[@spikeguy33]

I wonder how Tom finds these "interesting places" that he can make videos about. In my whole life i've perhaps seen 2-3 places that would possibly be interesting enough to video about. So does he just browse the search engines for interesting places, or does he simply know where to look.

[@NSLikeableHuman]

Probably several sources, including viewers of this very series! :-)

[@SimianSquared]

Well, I imagine it's a full time job for him :) Glad he does his research obviously!

[@zain4019]

UrbanTarzan Duh maybe from "that Wikipedia list". One channel created a whole playlist from that since it has so many interesting things.

[@dutchalfred553]

Most places are interesting if you scratch beneath the surface.

[@maksiksq]

1. His email, he reads them all 2. Archives and stuff (like the bomb place and stuff) 3. Main one probably - scavenging the internet for old news articles which love to write about this sorta stuff 4. And friends who use social media sometimes (Like the part of the Disney land that was planned for a nuclear reactor) 5. And absolutely random occurancies

[@Ritaaw1]

I’ve veen thinking about this issue too, in Finland a small airport inland in the middle of nowhere always has the hottest temperatures, it must be the asphalt getting got

[@minimalgrammar1276]

Tonight on Bottom Gear: I drive a rollercoaster, Hammond pilots the fockin' Tardis, and James breaks the space-time continuum.

[@BeastOfTraal]

A TARDIS theme park ride sound cool.

[@zandovic]

2019 now, nothing has changed.

[@glipk]

2020 now, everything has changed

[@symbungee]

@@glipk so theme park? Or just commenting on a broader state of the world?

[@glipk]

@@symbungee broader state of the world

[@symbungee]

@@glipk bummer. Let us know when the theme park starts being built.

[@georgebailey8179]

I wouldn't say nothing has changed. Doctor Who and Top Gear are far less popular than they were when this video was made.

[@Kombaiyashii]

I live about 7 miles away from there. It certainly seems the warmest, whenever we watch the weather reports, our region is often the warmest and when there is snow, we are usually the last to get it.

[@BobBob-cy9cu]

Hello. I'm from the future, the economy has crashed, we're in the middle of a pandemic and to top it all off Liverpool have won the league.

[@nou4898]

dont forget the recent heatwave too

[@TheMajkla]

It may be finished in 2055 based on how long it took to deliver the "easiest deal in history" / oven ready deal / frictionless trade / 2.5 unicorns for each family. And £350 million to NHS a week.

[@kasuha]

As a matter of fact, the London temperature will not drop on official record if the station moves. The moved station's record will be adjusted to match smoothly the old station's record even if it meant to adjust all its measurements by several degrees celsius. Some time ago I did a research of impact of homogenisation on station records in the US and the largest adjustment I found was by 5 degrees celsius added to all measurements for the official homogenised record. While that one was an outlier, good deal of stations had their measurements adjusted by 1 degree celsius or more, upwards or downwards. I'm sure you can find similar thing in the MET office records just by comparing raw and adjusted series. There are good reasons why these adjustments are applied (in general to keep data continuity) but that also means there will be no step change in official London temperature.

[@Larry]

Fuck the Top Gear ride, i want the Attack on Titan one like they have in Japan :D

[@edwardhunt3672]

Highest recorded UK temperature was in Coningsby, Lincolnshire (believe it or not) last year, 2022, at 40.3C

[@AnthonyRailwayBVideos]

Well, unfortunately we can't exactly expect a theme park there any time soon now that the government is making cuts to the BBC.

[@EREJones]

+AnthonyRailwayB Not really how this works. The theme park would be owned and operated by Paramount, who licence BBC content by paying the BBC. So, essentially, the BBC is being payed to have its intellectual property used in a theme park which it would re-invest in the corporation.

[@AnthonyRailwayBVideos]

Oh, in that case, the plan should go uninterrupted. Brilliant. Thanks for the info.

[@akStefan]

2018: Gravesend-Broadness weather station closes 2019: Hold my beer (new record of 38.7° recorded in Cambridge)

[@Nitrxgen]

1:34 - This land is still exactly as it is, former landfill, empty, and inactive despite the incredible amount of national infrastructure in the surrounding area that you don't notice...

[@Nitrxgen]

To clarify: All of that land is a former landfill as identified by DEFRA Environment Agency maps, there's still a load of rubbish that ends up on the shores from it, the water treatment plant a bit South has been disused for years but still remains, the cables overhead are 400 kV transmission lines, the Eurotunnel line passes immediately beneath this land also, there's outfall pipes and all sorts running around underneath too. Sure, they could build over it but it'll probably prove incredibly difficult I think. Eight months since my original comment, still nothing's changed. Usually if you walk around here at night, security (for what I don't know) tell you to leave.

[@courtney-ray]

Is the weather station still there?

[@Nitrxgen]

@@courtney-ray yes

[@micahphilson]

Oh my God. 101 F, 38 C, is the hottest it's ever been in all of the UK in recorded history? ... *you guys don't have any clue how nice you have it!*

[@micahphilson]

Try regularly, reliably every year, getting 0-110 F (-18-43 C)! I love Nebraska, but damn! Unless it's a hurricane, I'm never listening again when the UK complains about bad weather! (note: those temp.s are common, regular, and can last for over a week at least; however, the temp. can easily exceed those, and I personally have experienced at least -20-116 F, ~ -29-47 C, just in this state)

[@myusernameissoobnoxiouslyl9407]

@@micahphilson We do have it ''nice'', but here in Scotland we don't get warm summers like in the continental climate you describe. It stays moderately cool most of the year and then the winds pick up in Autumn. Stating numbers is all very well and good but I'd take cold dry air over cool humid air, howling winds and freezing rain. In Norway I could stand outside in -20C and not feel the cold on my bare face or hands, but in Scotland I still have to wrap up completely before heading out.

[@thomasr5302]

London is at a latitude of 51.5° so this place will be close to that. Therefore, it has a latitude/temperature°C ratio of 1.355. Sydney has a record temperature of 45.8°C and is has a latitude 33.5°. It has a latitude/temperature°C ratio of 0.73. Take into account that Britain is a small island so it normally has warm winters and cool summers. Take that Aussies! We are hotter than you!!!!!!!!!!!

[@hotelmario510]

Oh, to live in a time when 38°C was the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK.

[@afropunkx]

I’m confident that the highest temperature is higher than 38 degrees now 👀

[@rubiconnn]

I wish it was that cool here in California. It was just 105 degrees for several days in a row last week... and it's only May.

[@prappsy]

@@rubiconnn I bet you had plenty of places with AC to escape it though. Not much of that in the UK. You just sit and suffer.

[@untag4066]

a very cool 40 celsius

[@pjbhc]

After 6 years, still we wait.

[@desaturated-firefox]

Plot twist: six years later and no one is riding rollercoasters anywhere at all.

[@gb9727]

Currently, the park hasn't been built, because of some rare spiders. The bbc isn't working with london resort anymore, and it has been delayed for years. The company went into administration in march, and they will resubmit plans this year.

[@matthewcaylor342]

5 years now, has it gone up?

[@kebab5513]

Matthew Caylor very nearly this summer actually it reached 38°C or 100°F

[@AlexRutiaga]

From wikipedia: "On March 29, 2022, plans were officially withdrawn, citing Natural England's concerns and issues with the classification of Tilbury as a free port. Chief executive PY Gerbeau announced the company's intention to submit fresh plans before the end of the year.[8] In December 2022 it was announced that the plans for the park had been scaled back and that PY Gerbeau would step down as CEO and that the plans for the resort would be resubmitted in 2023."

[@Markus9705]

Thank you for mentioning the temperature in Celsius for the civilized world.

[@MegaBallPowerBall]

Markus Plenty of uncivilized places like Somalia and Afghanistan use Celsius as well. Only 3 countries officially use something else and only the illegitimate terrorist state known as the USA doesn't use Celsius for non-official purposes.

[@Windfarmer]

there are civilized Americans, as much as you don't want to think there are

[@homoceroscaeli]

Markus why are people hating on other countries for what temperature readings they use

[@KuK137]

@@tharparoberts5935 Lack of foresight? The only miserable countries are imbeciles that didn't switched. Which as of now is literally ONLY one country on the world. Also known as country that lost 500 mln $ on Mars probe due to idiotic love of medieval units...

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

I used to work on that very site! I can tell you from having lived all over the south of England, the whole area between Dartford and Gravesend frequently had temperatures keeping us sweltering year after year!

[@mikiqex]

Greetings from the 5-6 years time :-)

[@bokaboi]

"The famous 38 degrees calculus..." I'm like what? it was 38 here in Perth today, and yet the summer weather has only just begun!

[@AshMcFarlane]

There best be a Only Fools and Horses 3 wheeler simulator ride at this BBC theme park

[@MattyMcDoodle]

Watching this video six years on and don’t worry Tom, still no theme park 😂

[@stormageddon101]

Hahaha I didn't realise how hot Australia was in comparison to Britain. I live here in Australia, and it can be around 38 for a week.... But over there 38 is record breaking....

[@stormageddon101]

Ouch. Sucks that you's have it for about half a year. We get around the same temperatures during summer, except I don't think it's reached 120 fahrenheit where I live. but it's been pretty damn close. (Of times that I can remember)

[@ethansloan]

As an American I can only assume they built that theme park and people are joyfully riding the Tardis Coaster today.

[@tsm688]

they did not. Negotiations pulled on for years with nothing happening

[@joeturner1597]

If anyone has to make way for the Doctor, U.N.I.T. will see to it.

[@swalker8272]

The Jeremy Clarkson Top gear ride at Paramount theme park was one of the best experiences of my life

[@Nadia1989]

Six years later: this is not the Doctor we hoped for..

[@manuelka15]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@wegottagamer]

Who's here at the end of 2020 and thinking about that theme park?

[@grumpygoomba9763]

Update - the weather station has now closed, and nothing has happened here

[@booth2710]

- and nothing will ...

[@TheMajkla]

Just like many other Johnson's pipedreams. Bridge to Belfast for example. Good to take attention off something but that's all.

[@TheRealGobbo]

Now coming in 2024 - called the London Resort. Licensing from Paramount, BBC and ITV. Planning permission to be submitted by the end of 2021

[@EddyProca]

The hottest British place... ...in the world!

[@DangItshere]

Haha nice joke mate

[@panda4247]

I read that in Clarkson's voice

[@investigate3_11]

Damn, Tom looks really good in this one for some reason.

[@Th3almighty001]

If you think 38ºC is hot don't come to Australia where the mid 30s is normal for most of summer . 45ºC is what it takes to get mentioned in the news and some places mangage to get into the 50s on a regular basis inland.

[@spikeguy33]

And what about winters? Does it get below -20ºC often like in more "northen" countries? What's the range of min/max temperatures over the year? (Lithuania here, so ~ -25 in winter, +30 in summer (in most years the temperatures reach those "peaks" for a few days) so in the end the range is about 55)

[@Th3almighty001]

I don't actually know the minimums but I know Tasmania gets quite cold, being so close to the south pole with all the Antarctic winds it often drops a fair way below 0ºC.

[@mintymilkk]

Oh yeah, I bet it's terrible with all that dry heat you have over there. The heat here is moist and wet; at 30 degrees everyone is sweating.

[@Th3almighty001]

Actually it was 41 and almost 100% humidity here in Brisbane about two weeks ago. Where it hits 50 inland it's dry but definitely not along the coast

[@mintymilkk]

Th3almighty001 Yeah, I started to think that may be the case as I started typing. Even so, pretty much everywhere in the U.K. is ridiculously close to water in comparison to Australia, so you can't get away from it no matter how hard you try!

[@aaa11128]

It still hasn’t been completed

[@TommyCrosby]

Moving this weather station could solve global warming in the UK :P (If you thought I was serious, I feel sorry for you.)

[@MrSkinnyWhale]

The hottest place in Britain is in Tom's pants

[@jaydnn6782]

why

[@RKH1502]

Hum di dum dum, just browsing the interne- OH LOOK NEW TOM SCOTT VIDEO *click*

[@Markus9705]

LOL Always

[@gb9727]

In 20 years, i may be at some mega theme park that may never come to be

[@walterh2113]

It did NOT go well.

[@felixsanders1691]

Where can I buy tickets, me and the 4 kids are standing outside the fence but see no rides

[@legna20v]

TOM you should be in doctor who

[@DrewJPS]

Hahahaha! Amazing...

[@CJT3X]

how is this amazing?

[@williambrennan104]

He should be the Doctor!

[@NotParticularlyWitty]

“It’s going to be quite different in 5 or 6 years time.” Yes, it really was...

[@electronkaleidoscope5860]

101F is a pleasant summers day over here in New Mexico, a miserable one would be around 112F. Ten degrees can have a surprising difference

[@madi1420]

Watching from more than 5, 6 years later, still no sign of a themepark

[@barbadolid5170]

38 Celsius, that's cute

[@fleecemaster]

Haha, yeah, I live on the sun and we regularly get 6,000C!

[@ReactingWithKallum]

Gonzalo del Moral the UK is much more humid than many countries so it feels hotter than it is

[@TesserId]

Time to look into weather sensor networks. It would be interesting to see a fine grained "topology" map of temperature, pressure, and humidity.

[@Jawst]

Yes! It wouldn't be hard! Considering the UK motorways have wifi it wouldn't be very hard to implement into the system

[@ilove2run89]

So funny story. My dad was in the army for a long time, and in 1993 he was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. As he and mom and sister drove into town one afternoon in June 1993, the bank sign registered the temperature as 114.5 degrees Fahrenheit (about 46 Celsius). The day I was born in July 1995, my mom wrote down in my baby book that it was 107 out (42 Celsius). Where I live now in Indiana, it regularly tops 100 in the summer. Needless to say I had a little chuckle when you said the all-time UK record was 101.

[@Gambit771]

+Audrey Tucker That sounds bad. I'll stick with what we have here.

[@AdamC3046]

Nope

[@loco4loco]

What happened?

[@kilometreman]

According to Kent Online... 'Company developing London Resort theme park plans on Swanscombe Peninsula call in administrators, March 2023' things have gone a bit wrong; the developers are £100m in debt. After a period of restructuring there are still plans for development but scaled back from the original ones due to concerns about the environment.

[@loco4loco]

@@kilometreman rip

[@kilometreman]

@@loco4loco 😆

[@zdavzbr]

So... It's been 5 years and you know... I don't think there's gonna be a theme park there any time soon.

[@pr0xy693]

Hah I remember 48'c in Poland in summer

[@JackMaddock1]

I remember 48'c in Australia in spring. The world is a warm place!

[@kalebbruwer]

last year it was 52°C in Kruger park South Africa. let it sink in that that is closer to boiling pont than freezing point.

[@szymonnn]

In Poland? To typowy Rosjanin czy Polak z ciebie?

[@KasabianFan44]

48°C in Poland?! The highest temperature ever recorded in Poland was 40°C, and that was way back in 1921. So whatever you said was complete bullshit.

[@pr0xy693]

KasabianFan44 yea but that's recorded I personally experienced 48'c in Poland maybe because it's in the south side of Poland

[@mikyGTT]

I walk my dog around this area regularly and the most action this place gets is when there's a search by police for a missing person ! There's lots of houses being built here today so chances are it'll suffer the same fate.

[@Lutranereis]

"The famous thirty eight degree Celsius..." You Brits are spoiled. We regularly get into the 40's.

[@Lutranereis]

***** America

[@JeekPlays]

Just a few days ago, we reached 45 degrees, in my place, Geraldton, Australia.

[@nitehawk86]

It gets that high in the northeast, much less the southwest.

[@Ikol3751]

Perth, Western Australia, we're looking at a week of high thirties to low forties. (celsius) Brittain is spoiled indeed.

[@JJRicks]

In Phoenix, AZ USA we get up to 52

[@ChrisSpargo]

As of 2020 the weather station is gone, its temperature record has been beaten, and the theme park is still in the planning stages.

[@kilometreman]

It never actually held the UK temperature record; Tom made a mistake! While it did reach 38.1C on August 10th 2003, which was announced as the record, it was only a provisional record and an examination of more data from the day led to a final record of 38.5C being declared in October 2003 for Faversham, Kent. This stood until 2019 and was beaten again in 2022. It still stands as the August record so proof of my claims can be found on the Met Office 'UK Climate Extremes' page!

[@baconliontigers985]

“The famous 38 degrees” yesterday it was 39 where I live

[@pocarski]

Judging by the fact that you're getting 39 degrees in December, you live in Australia. Now you may not be aware of this, but the UK is actually not the same place as Australia, even though the Queen is the head of state in both of them. For a nation in northern Europe with every point relatively close to the sea, such as the UK, 38 degrees is an extremely high temperature, especially since in general, it is a very rare occasion to see temperatures above 30 degrees anywhere in Europe outside of the Mediterranean coast.

[@Adarisa]

This is quite an interesting video to watch four and a half years later - the UK's temperature record was beaten by Cambridge Botanic Gardens on a scorching July day a few weeks back, and no, there's no theme park about to open there. Allegedly construction's going to begin in 2021....

[@nicomonkeyboy]

Off there today! Can't wait - the kids are so excited...

[@InTheBeginningTheUniverseWas]

*joke about how Jeremy Clarkson punched someone and got fired and they were going to make a Top Gear ride*

[@pqrstzxerty1296]

Ride is called Box the steak.

[@SamBrickell]

Your comment and username are both equally unoriginal.

[@DeannaEarley]

Watching this in 5-6 years time....

[@apsims12]

Here in July 2020, planning and consultation is still ongoing for the theme park. Being a local, since the restructuring of the QE II/Dartford Tunnel crossing layout, and confirmation of the new crossing (still in consultation itself), I see even less likelihood of the park going ahead as the local road network cannot deal with local commuter traffic yet alone tourist traffic. Before COVID lockdown, my local area would see serious traffic issues usually 2-3 times per working week that would last throughout the day. Once an issue starts, it would snowball for the rest of the day. The ownership of the land has also changed hands, I think twice, if I recall correctly but don't quote me on that. (Watching Tom's chronological upload playlist)

[@crazyt1483]

Are you just looking at the extunal information of are you looking directly at the information that the London resort is Producing as I’m not local but the plan is to build a new road connecting the A2 to the resort create a interchange at Ebbsfleet international to allow transport by train followed by a shuttle/fastrack (what ever is meant by that) also having packing at tilbury docks and transport from London by ferrying people to a new terminal. You have great points so why don’t you raise them at the public consultation ?

[@auhsoj3adie]

So about that 38C record…

[@zombieregime]

record highs in Britain is 101F?! good bye california, hello UK.

[@MegaBallPowerBall]

zombieregime The hottest temperature ever recorded in Eureka California was 76 degrees Fahrenheit.

[@joahnnaibarra2282]

@@MegaBallPowerBall i know this was posted 3 years ago, but i dont get this comment. Why does it matter what the record temperature is in one specific city?

[@markfox1545]

The temperature isn't measured everywhere. This place is the hottest of the places where the temperature is measured.

[@jamesstewart556]

Plans for the theme park have been scaled back a bit, the main attractions will now be Top Round and Dr. What.

[@Benjy52]

5 years time, and still no theme park

[@morganbowler-brown4703]

"5-6 years time" is... Well... Now. No theme park, but we do have a global pandemic. So... Swings and roundabouts.

[@owenmason8437]

Give us an update please

[@someweeb3650]

*laughs in California's 42 degrees*

[@TheMijman]

Some Weeb what's your point?

[@NapalmFlame]

Okay, 0:07 and I didn't expect to see the old Tilbury power station, and the nightmarish view that is seeing Tilbury and Grays, in a Tom Scott video.

[@ElijahLM01]

"the famous 101F" im from sacramento...thats just a tuesday

[@TheJavaMonkey]

Same!

[@undead890]

I'm from Sacramento as well. I think you left something out. That's a cold Tuesday.

[@ribbon9110]

i love gravel!!! thanks for documenting this video

[@Meneltour27]

I wish that the peak temp was 38 where i live, its more like 41-42, i would love it if peak temps where only 38.

[@bulman07]

Average peak is more like 21°, 38° is the highest ever recorded

[@Meneltour27]

Andrew Bulman yep. Exacly at summer our average is around 38 degrees. When that happens i cant do anything i feel like a corpse. I really hate the heat :p

[@bulman07]

Meneltour27 ... Likewise. At least when it's cold you can wear warmer clothes. It's currently 6° and sunny outside for me, wish it would drop a bit more #letitsnow