UK heatwave: ‘Exceptional’ wildfire risk during four-day extreme heat warning

An official drought declaration by water companies and the government is expected tomorrow.
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Today, much of England and Wales entered the four-day amber heat warning period with the risk of fire set at "exceptional".
Fire chiefs urge people not to barbecue and make sure cigarettes are extinguished. Conservationists are calling for an England-wide ban on using hose pipes to protect struggling wildlife and rivers which are at exceptionally low levels in parts of the country.
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[@shristi1970]

It's all Great blaming the consumer but we know it's an industry that generates the highest pollution, not only does the individual need to change but big firms need to step up.

[@janverboven]

The question is, will they ? As long as they make profits on the back on normal people, will they ?

[@LaurArt_UK]

Yes, props to the last interviewee for essentially saying no, there's nothing we can do, its the govt who need to pay attention and sort out their priorities.

[@MorsayNickTaMere]

@@janverboven its not about making products but the way they produce it, and the left overs. Capitalists have lied and should be executed for this

[@bluceree7312]

Just consume less, Sora, then you can whine about what companies aren't doing.

[@sew_gal7340]

they cant talk smack against their corporate overlords. where is the blame on nike? Adidas? Coke? Those are all some of the biggest polluters and child slavery pimps on the face of the planet.

[@xinceras-6542]

I just love listening to rich elites explain to us that the poor and powerless are to blame for all their evil decisions. Good stuff.

[@soul741xD]

Honestly tho, you can't erase all the fault from the people. In the end of the day is us who pay those corporations, are the ones who refuse to let go of their high consumism life style, and make fun or shun people who don't eat meat or try to be zero waste as possible. If you think any change in this world came from people from the bottom doing nothing and just placing the blame on someone else. You are heavily mistaken

[@ricardosmythe2548]

The population in the UK has increased by 20 million since the 1970s. Water companies privatised for 3 decades now and how many new reservoirs built with the proceeds?

[@sw1000xg]

All party of the plan to turn the uk in to a third world dictatorship

[@leethrelfalllt]

Is that a trick question?...🤔🤔

[@natillefoxy9881]

We are first world just move way to slow to catch on unfortunately.

[@GardenandGreen]

exactly, nice to see someone else pointing out this huge fact. All mainstream politicians, including 'greens', media like Ch4 News etc etc have all supported this massive rise in population, with millions moving here from elsewhere, and none have ever considered the environmental impact, or how our infrastructure like sewage, water, energy etc would cope.

[@rollthetape88]

reservoirs in the south have been sold off to the property developers. You can't just build a new reservoirs, the best sites have already been built.

[@michaelrch]

It seems like every time the government sees an environmental crisis it thinks, "what can we do to make this worse?"

[@spikewulfenden706]

I would like to start by saying I’m 53 and concerns regarding CFCs was being discussed in the junior school I was at. By secondary school the taboo topic, as far politicians were concerned, of global warming was regularly discussed. I personally feel it’s too late and sadly we’re going to have get used to flooding and drought. As far addressing the immediate future, water companies need to actually spend money that always seems to end up in the CEO and shareholders bank accounts, on the actual environment, without passing those cost onto us, the long suffering people.

[@ihavebeenben]

Bro.......we have and always will have to deal with extreme weather across the board. Nothing has changed, adapt to survive all this "too late" talk is useless unless you want to top yoursef 🤣

[@contorta960]

@@ihavebeenben you have some internet access, go and try to edify yourself on something.

[@ihavebeenben]

@@contorta960 i am continuing my edification in the comment section at the moment 😄

[@PsilentMusicUK]

@@ihavebeenben "Adapt to survive" You people always say this as if you're one of the people prepared to adapt. How well do you suppose you'll adapt when the world sees 30% reductions in annual grain yields causing your food prices skyrocket, and tens of millions of people begin flocking into the northern hemisphere to flee their homes that are now uninhabitable to human life for large periods of the year?

[@ihavebeenben]

@@PsilentMusicUK we are all sharing one reality, adapting to survive is a very real part of this reality weather you choose to accept this or not. Yes my people have undeniably adapted and survived in may ways, Famine and disease are nothing new and we will always be faced with events we do not controll such as climate change and plates shifting.

[@ireallylovegod]

So weird , it's almost like the climate is changing ....

[@janhaugen6034]

hmmmmmm..... yeh

[@Saiyan36912]

What's ironic is human beings are supposed to be the smartest species on the planet but we're ruining our only home 🤣😂 it's pretty grim be very surprised if we're not in a dystopian world by 2050

[@ireallylovegod]

@@Saiyan36912 Don't call it dystopian it makes it sound kinda fun and cool to some people , lol

[@braxxian]

The climate always changes, has done for 4 billion years. The question is are Humans to blame this time?. The endless climate changes of the past eons seem to indicate we alone are not the only reason.

[@johnbinnie5697]

Humanity has never witnessed as rapid a change. Climate change destroyed many a civilization prior. This time will be much much worse.

[@duke2462]

Been waiting years for this summer, I've been to Tesco to stock up on beer and snacks

[@franklettering]

It's a good job Thatcher sold off the National Water Board .! ....it was a mantra of the Tories then that it would "give us more choice" .

[@doniehurley7634]

Rain soaked Ireland suddenly looks like paradise glad I live here

[@agritech802]

Greetings from the East of Ireland, no rain here, we're currently feeding winter feed to cows because there's no grass ☹️

[@clive373]

Shhhhhh, the brits will invade again when they realise water is more precious than oil!

[@heatherjoy479]

Love your rain please south England dry dry dry hot 🔥 🥵

[@jordanjanice1]

@@agritech802 yepp feeding winter feed to cows now in england too, its a ticking time bomb for when we inevitably run out

[@agritech802]

@@jordanjanice1 yes very true 👍

[@ashwynn4177]

"Those destroying the Earth will also be destroyed "

[@arfgrogue5735]

So I suppose you will be added into that mix?

[@stephenwalker2924]

I bet you're a delight at parties...

[@sw1000xg]

Yes those in favour of mass immigration are destroying our country.

[@ashwynn4177]

@@arfgrogue5735 Probably

[@ashwynn4177]

@@stephenwalker2924 I don't do parties

[@JugglinJellyTake01]

Sewerage is a source of biogas and manure for silviculture. That would reduce the pollution going into our rivers and seas and provide heat from biogas for district heating. The solutions are already there. The water companies are yet another industry that needs urgent renationalisation.

[@vhawk1951kl]

Which would achieve what do you suppose? Have you ever met a politician or a civil servant that could organise a bout of excessive drinking in the brewery?

[@mozi3051]

They dump chemicals in that. Its alot worse than just organic sewage.

[@vhawk1951kl]

@@mozi3051 Who told you that and why do you believe them?

[@mozi3051]

@@vhawk1951kl is this where am supposed to say that i work in sanitation? Its a fact. Ask mr google

[@vhawk1951kl]

@@mozi3051 That's good enough for me, ta

[@zatoichibeat]

Extinction rebellion have been saying all this for years

[@clive373]

careful, these commenters probably want to run XR granmothers over. They seem mysteriously optimistic. I'm seventy, and think I might live long enough to see them complaining when there isn't enogh food.

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

the earth being DOING ever it since it has existed and guess what THERE ARE NO MISTAKES IN NATURE

[@ozzyaustin9766]

Get used to it I am an ex pat In Portugal there are fires here which are still burning after 6 days with over 1500 firefighters with 10,000 hectares on fire take care x

[@martycrush6412]

I live in warminster, wiltshire. My family have lived on my council estate for my whole life. For the past 30 years we’ve had a lake. It disappeared 4 months ago. I’ve always dismissed “global warming” but it’s happening NOW and it’s happening to YOU and ME and everyone you know and love😱🤷🏻‍♂️

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea !" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

[@handyandy6050]

Yes, that was an absolute classic!

[@fredflintstoner596]

@@handyandy6050 I'M A DOCTOR AND I WANT MY SAUSAGES !

[@sbsman4998]

Try blaming politicians who wasted precious time last 50 years w MANY warnings ignored, then blaming poor people driving to work heating/cooling homes eating meat ~ good idea shut down economies starving populations while polluting last bit of biosphere!! ~

[@clive373]

Nobody is blaming you. Why do you think they are? I got a motorbike for 1 pound when I was 13, and raced around the fields and grass lanes on a farm, I used to fly, for fun. When I realised how bad climate change was going to be, I quit. I care about todays kids, and I know their life will be a nightmare, so it wasn't hard. Or, are you saying that you dont't want to change your diet? Don't worry, climate change will do that.

[@sbsman4998]

@@clive373 Smoke and mirrors Clive and "experts" not only giving advice but demanding compliance under penalty of prison ~ worry about your children's freedom to think and speak freely sir, or have you thought of that?

[@newbiekhyber]

I am sure we can ask Evian to fill up the lake with their bottled water - regular and sparkling.

[@Saiyan36912]

Remember when everyone laughed at that young kid from Sweden who said our house is on fire 🔥 she's was right

[@marclang7431]

Lol. No she wasn't.

[@rickdrescher9690]

The same kid that's been flying around the world in aircraft that guzzle jet fuel for the last 4 years?

[@Azamat421]

@@marclang7431 yea she was

[@Azamat421]

@@marclang7431 yea she was

[@Azamat421]

@@marclang7431 yea she was

[@aaroningl]

4 days ? 😆...So that's a total of 6 hot days so far this year ! This is barely newsworthy.

[@max0192]

Seems to me that you don't know how to count...

[@nobullshoot]

you didnt mention lake mead and the hoover dam in Nevada. Its close to dead pool which means no more water for the colorado river, no electricity, no water for the farms and cities.

[@MsSwiftie]

That's because this is British news programme talking about the UK🙄

[@cameronwillis949]

It’s British news… not everything in the world is about America…..

[@nobullshoot]

@@cameronwillis949 of course not, but the story isnt local, its global. It builds a larger story.

[@sinjinsmythe1571]

@@nobullshoot if its global how come we're not talking about water restoration and water preservation projects that are happening in places like India using technology that is over a millenia old....... the solutions are centuries old and out there but we are attracted to fear more than solutions. For example the lake is dry but there's literally ponds in the footage that is not dried out in this report. The clue to water preservation is right there but you dont see it.... lts more focus on fear than solutions.

[@hidesertroamer]

@@cameronwillis949 Lol! This American agrees with you!

[@idrisalhajiadamu7590]

We in inner west Africa are experiencing heavy rain.

[@marekdg]

POLISH FISH WERE NOT FACT CHECKED 🤷🏻‍♂️🫠

[@colleentownrow9675]

Have the government got the army on standby to help the fire brigade probably not, we all need to be sensible these next few days take care everyone

[@edwardowen4488]

Why are we panicking over a few days hot weather it was like this for weeks in 1976! People need to get a grip

[@jumble-1238]

@@edwardowen4488 No idea why people keep mentioning 1976 as an answer to everything. Basically in 1976 there was a heatwave but max temp was about 35. What terrifies me is a similar heatwave happening again but this time the maximum temperature is 40 C. The temperatures this year prove this could happen. It might not happen this year but global warming has made it possible

[@edwardowen4488]

@@jumble-1238 we had weeks of high temperatures in 76 not just a few days but the thought of a 76 luke summer now with 40degrees for weeks is frightening

[@jumble-1238]

@@edwardowen4488 I understand but everyone keeps mentioning 1976 like it’s the only example we have. So now I assume people that go on about ‘1976’ are just basing their information on other KZbin comments rather than dependable evidence.

[@YA-hm5zy]

But still big business and politicians only care about filling their pockets. They will always have enough water and the means to survive. It's the poorest around the world that will suffer. Time for real action from the people.

[@Fifthcaptain]

Join Extinction Rebellion.

[@debsidoo1008]

We have so many houses being built and the demand for water, power etc is growing as each year passes. Are the water companies providing more storage facilities to accommodate the growing population ? We are also an island surrounded by seawater, the sea levels are rising. Why can’t we at least use the seawater in some way ?

[@mrhead8175]

desalination isnt cheap they were thinking of the same thing in california where they have it exponentially worse than the uk

[@heater5979]

I don't want to deny the severity of the conditions but this is hyping things up a bit. He said "wetlands we created..." and was then immediately cut off. I'm sure he was about to mention when that was. So an artificial wetland, that was not there before 1980 or whenever, has failed and dried up while I see that all around looks green and nice. Which you can see from the arial shot at the beginning.

[@Veni_Vidi_Vortice]

To help save water I have stopped washing and started to take dust baths instead. So far it's going well, but it does leave you with a gritty feeling in the underpants.

[@grindupBaker]

The way this works (the desert zone) involves "latent heat of evaporation-condensation" which is much energy equalling for 1 kg water the same as heating 10 kg water by 60 degrees (and some latent heat of fusion-freezing also). Air rises wet from the ocean around the Inter Tropical Convection Zone (ITCZ) just north of equator in May-August and cools by say 90 degrees while rising 15 km which condenses the H2O gas and the water rains back down there. It would have cooled by say 135 degrees but all that latent heat of condensation & freezing held back 45 degrees of cooling. As it heads north at 15 km up the Coriolis Effect turns it hard right so it's stopped there and descends and gets heated by pressure as it descends, but it's bone dry because its H2O fell out when it rose, so it heats by maybe 135 degrees as it descends by 15 km so it's now 45 degrees warmer than the warm tropics where it rose due to "latent heat of evaporation-condensation" cooling the tropics where it rose and putting its heat into the air. My example is an exaggeration because it's also radiating heat to space but it does carry several extra degrees of heat north in the air due to water latent heat. So that causes the Sahara Desert and also its dry air descending which means no cloud so the summer Sun is blazing. The Mediterranean Sea is too deep to be dried to desert but southern Europe is destined to gradually become in the desert zone of dry descending air from ITCZ that I just described. It's inevitable as the global warming relentlessly progresses due to the +CO2.

[@mozi3051]

This explains why we are having this bone chilling cold along the equator in kenya.

[@mattg768]

It's like that scene from riddick when the sun comes out and he has to run as the ground is exploding behind him. That's how I feel when I leave the shade of work and have to run to my A/C in the car.

[@theuglyhairmonster2]

Uncharted waters? I thought it had all evaporated

[@coraltown1]

idiot comment level 5

[@INFINITY-oe4is]

Then in the winter we will be complaining about too much water in the form of floods!

[@spacemonkey200]

Don't be silly... I will be 36°C in December... Ask Greta. 😂

[@rolanddeschain5161]

Climate Change mate, that includes floods.

[@frusia123]

We must stop raising children into this mindset of greed, violence and rape of resources. That's exactly what's behind all of this: selfish greed. The world is not here for us to use and abuse, nothing that exists is for our mindless selfishness. We need to restore a sense of sacredness of life.

[@lorrainedimmock4096]

What about all those thousands of new houses being built, all adding to the water shortage and growing daily.....

[@abeautifulmindispoetrydefi5323]

Please, please, please understand I'm not saying that it's not going to be bad, because it cannot be ruled out, all I am saying is that 44 degrees Celsius is coming as is 50 degrees which is possibly next year or the year after. Everything changes, even down to seeing what would be tropical diseases that would normally happen in other countries far from our shores, they will begin happening here, as with species of animals migrating to here as well. The eco system is effectively broken and a number of links in the chain no longer exist which is fundamentally why this is beginning to happen. The same way in nuclear testing we see the results of a chain reaction, we will see the same with our biodiversity as they become more and more unstable. Many scientists are tracking this, but they are blind as to what level we have already reached.

[@anonnymous4684]

I'm with you on the temperature increases. 30 degrees used to be quite unusual for a British summer but now it's expected. And that's happened in the space of two decades. And it seems as if the increases are exponential so quite plausible that mid 40s could be here in a few years from now.

[@mauriceosullivan6832]

@@anonnymous4684 30 degrees is still rare in the uk,,,as for 40 degrees plus,,,only time will tell.

[@janmeyer3129]

It is where the mosquitoes move to which is the worry. Malaria used to be really big when grapes last grew well in Britain.

[@abeautifulmindispoetrydefi5323]

@@janmeyer3129 I'm not a huge fan of mosquitoes either, as it happens 👍

[@conburd3338]

@@mauriceosullivan6832 it was 40 plus about a month ago lol

[@felixsmith5234]

"what about the impact of climate change on all this" "all this" is the result of climate change

[@openbabel]

So here is the question. If all the water across Europe has evaporated.Where has this water gone along with sea evaporation ? If the answer is that it has been held in the air due to high temperatures ,as soon as the temperatures drop this will result in very heavy storms and flooding. Can you also comment on how much the Russian attack in the Ukraine will effect global or regional climate change?

[@jumble-1238]

I’d recommend doing the research yourself

[@bp842]

all I can say is 1976 was a warning to the 🇬🇧 but in that time the uk has not learnt anything of saving our water in the this country but it could have been prevented with the building off more reservoir in England and Wales but as normal the company that run these only consider there own self interest which is there share holding and there is no more plans to build anymore reservoir to be build in the uk and building 10 desalination plants would help but there is no plans to build any in the uk i guess that we and our country side an inferstucter doesn't matter how many yr will this take before action is taken in the uk

[@therange4033]

They would rather build more houses. Less greenery. We are really in trouble!

[@PrototypeFreak89]

@@therange4033 That's because too many people keep having children and want houses. I think man made weather clouds would help with this issue. They have the brains so why can't they do it?!

[@therange4033]

@@PrototypeFreak89 I actually think the breeding of more children is on the down curve! We have far too many immigrants when we can't house our own.

[@PrototypeFreak89]

@@therange4033 You do know that most migrants work harder than brittish people so please stop with the "too many migrants" rubbish. Maybe if idiots didn't keep going off with different women then the goverment wouldn't have to struggle with housing.

[@Solitude11-11]

@@PrototypeFreak89 It’s not people here having children, it’s the thousands that keep flooding into the country. It’s a small island, and it’s grossly overpopulated.

[@kkkkit]

The new pm needs to put emergency investment in other energy sources! If we can put up emergency hospitals for the pandemic we can do this surely

[@bl5752]

Stop talking about "saving the enviroment!" The environment will adapt and regenerate. However, we, as a species, will most likely not be able to adapt if we don't stop warming. We're in a mass extension event and humanity will probably not be around in 200yrs. Start speaking the truth.

[@msingh2333]

The weather men seem jolly about hot weather

[@lauralishes1]

99.9% of all species that ever existed are now extinct, why would you think humans would be immune from this? Humans have been a tiny tiny part of Earth since it existed. Earth is billions of years old. Modern humans have been around for mere thousands and will likey become extinct at some point just like the several other mass extinctions that has happened.

[@deusvlad2.083]

Now is the time to go treasure hunting arrgh!!!

[@AlasdairILoveOxford]

I remember very well living very near Yorkshire in summer 2007 which the speaker refers to- that was the wettest summer in ages

[@lauralishes1]

"It's not going to rain anywhere in western Europe including the UK at all this week" **Looks out window to see the pub across the road flooded due to heavy rain **

[@91Durktheturk]

Reporter: Normally, I'd be completely submerged here. Local expert: Normally, there would be knee deep water here..........

[@irenedavo3768]

Please watch Afrimax English

[@KONAMAN100]

Yes, lol.

[@Kurauone__]

For crying out loud 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@KONAMAN100]

@@Kurauone__ well she was trying to make a point, bless her.

[@G2097]

It begins...

[@agritech802]

It's a tragedy to let sewerage into rivers when it could be used for providing nutrients and hydration for crops ☹️

[@NotoriousPyro]

You can't water crops with sewerage, that's how you end up with cholera and other diseases. Not to mention the other stuff in there like bleach, dishwashing solution, etc... That will not grow healthy crops...

[@agritech802]

@@NotoriousPyro sewerage has lots of nitrogen and phosphorus, essential for growing crops, and that's the reason why they are bad for fish in the rivers, because they grow plants in the river that uses up all the oxygen. Bleach is used in swimming pools and is neutralized very quickly by soil and organic matter

[@GardenandGreen]

But it's not just sewage though is it? it's mixed with everything that gets flushed and poured down drains, including huge amounts of chemicals.

[@agritech802]

@@GardenandGreen in fairness most of it is poo and pee and if it's safe to wash our clothes, dishes and ourselves in the other stuff, then it is safe to put it in our crops

[@nigelrequiem]

Good point!

[@imranbanaras2236]

Only thing will come out of this is water meters

[@j3sper]

Keep dragging your feet that will solve the crisis...

[@gregf9160]

Meanwhile, in Scotland and Ireland ... It actually rains.

[@therange4033]

Lucky Scotland!

[@Munyabrwn]

2050 it'll be bone dry

[@ireallylovegod]

For now , it rains for now.

[@therange4033]

@@Munyabrwn I think come 2050, we will have FAR more to worry about!

[@K_ingh16]

Oi, give us some

[@user-bm5oj8yg8s]

Karma never forget, Karma never forgive ! UK deserve it.

[@robertkattner1997]

And Monday the heatwave is over, 20 degrees and raining for the whole week. Check out Yuma, 42 degrees for 5 month and square miles of crops growing, no one complaining. Looks like Britain needs some water education.

[@aaronburge3680]

Its not just the consumers fault. We should be taught about ecology, looking after the planet, animals, are fellow humans. We in the West are taught to over indulge. Industries look after the world!!!

[@louistaylor8808]

Everything is a money making scheme, the eco push is to make more money for the elite, climate change happens with or without people, earths surface was once molten lava, go figure.

[@sarina5352]

Excellent comment. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@irenedavo3768]

Do you watch Jim Nduruchi

[@aaronburge3680]

@@louistaylor8808 There will always be climate change but we have sped it up by ravishing the earth and screwing the atmosphere.

[@louistaylor8808]

@@aaronburge3680 agreed, but an inhabitable atmosphere wasn’t here from the getgo, therefore it’s retainable with the correct interventions

[@fabiolabarone5798]

To make a pair of jeans 40000 litres of water is needed so maybe we should educate people specially the younger generation not to be such a consumer.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

What's classed is essential water use?

[@kylieb5213]

Anything beyond drinking and washing yourself

[@MrMillander]

“One of the wetlands we created” It’s not natural what do you expect in a drought! It’s England it’ll be back.

[@elgringo1893]

So you're saying, it doesn't matter that it doesn't rain in the summer, because it's going to rain loads in the winter 🙃🙃

[@MrMillander]

@@elgringo1893 no firstly he’s moaning about a man made lake, it’s the rivers streams and reservoirs that are important. The point I’m making it’s it’s England it’ll rain soon!

[@elgringo1893]

@@MrMillander doesn't feel like England mate, I've lived here all my life, feels more like the south of Spain at the moment.

[@MrMillander]

@@elgringo1893 yeah I hear you.

[@our-days-are-short8254]

We've had mid 30s temps since they started recording in the 1900s.

[@Aeye424]

Why why why do all these people keep saying crisis after every FInG thing enough 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@abeautifulmindispoetrydefi5323]

Sorry to disappoint everyone but as a clairvoyant, I can tell you now this heatwave is not the one that we need to be concerned about. Whilst I am very glad to see that the Fire Brigade services have stepped up to the plate this time. They still need to be doing more and the same way that the Met Office has weather watchers up and down the country, we need to be inviting the public to consider taking up this opportunity to be early warning "Fire Marshall" who can accurately report and evidence the fire in the way of using social platforms like whatsapp, text, twitter, etc, to inform the appropriate services a.s.a.p. Equally people must also accept accountability if in the event of a hoax that they will face fines, and prosecutions for wasting the emergency services time. We have the potential to learn from this mini heatwave the impacts and effects it has by just the tiny difference between 3 to 5 degrees. As this is not a 40 degree heatwave, this may well impact on things like we saw last time, such as trains, planes and automobiles. My concern isn't the 40 but the 44 degree record as that may have far more devastating impacts up "Tower Blocks" like "Grenfell" and then we literally have a ticking time bomb. So that's all I wanted to say at this point. Also, I wanted to agree with the head of the Fire Services, that recruitment has to become paramount if we are going to attempt to fire fight on any future sustainable level, or deploy the 10,000 troops we offered to send to the Ukraine. It may well be fortuitous if the Army works in collaboration with the "Fire Department" as they have done with when we face flooding, causing risk to life and properties which is also increasing. The future P.M. might want to put this at the top of the list with the million and one other things they need to be sorting out. Before I end on this note, I just want to say my thoughts and prayers go out with all of those people who will be on the front line fire fighting over the next few days and hopefully we will get through this because of both better planning and preparedness. Our government needs to be doing more to support all the front line services, because to neglect them any longer is both irresponsible and is sadly putting the lives of our citizens at risk. I would like to understand why the Fire Brigade did not adopt all the recommendations put forward by the "Grenfell" disaster? Or when will they put those recommendations in place. As we do need to learn from our mistakes. I will end on this last note which is we will see the record of 40.3 degree Celsius being broken before the year ends.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Corporations run this world.

[@craigboden9455]

That costs money, it doesn't make any. Being a clairvoyant.... Change the word God to the word sun and the Bible will tell you all you need to know about what's happening. That cycle of the sun has now landed on us and we have made it worse with our pollution and the fact there are billions more of us now than there were then. The powers that be are preparing already while keeping the rest of us in the dark, (we all know they hate competition in all things right?) most anyway lol not all of us. But they are prepared, and the majority are not. We are there workforce and they intend to take enough with them to get by and the rest of us.... Well we will deal with each other when it really goes down won't we.... And at the end of it? Less people are easier to control than the billions we have right now. Malicious consent kind of thing. Allow it to happen as it fits their agenda and no one can be blamed.

[@annekenewman8754]

When is the big heatwave going to be, do you have any clues? Thanks

[@craigboden9455]

@@annekenewman8754 2025

[@abeautifulmindispoetrydefi5323]

Making any prediction, has an element of guess work to it, which helps to narrow the odds down. So for argument sake, I could make a rash prediction that says yes' it's likely to be while I'm away so that I don't have to be around to bear the horrible heat. My life has been like a Swiss watch, that is timed to perfection. I'm away between the 4th of September till the 18th, that is when I believe we'll have this heatwave and we will be reaching the possible new record of 44 degrees Celsius. Now here lies the other argument that says well what if it doesn't happen then at all, but it does happen by the end of this Summer? Which equally a easier prediction to make as that too could be the case. The same way that it may not happen at all. My gut feeling is that we are not out of the woods yet, and there is more that is still to come, and what I mean by that is us hitting 40 Degrees and more. The other matter is having hit it once, never rules out the chances that it may well happen again. Perhaps I should be much more conservative and not as specific as I have been as many could argue that I in fact set myself up to fail at this point, and they would be perfectly right in saying so. The problem for me is having this intuitive nature that has been with me for decades now, seems to be more and more fine tuned. As another example here would be how the N.H.S is preparing for a very harsh winter, and we haven't had one of those for a very long time. Personally, it doesn't resonate with me at all, so I would be predicting a very mild winter. Which may well work out for the consumer this year in keeping the energy bills low, because we are heading into a drought and a prolonged period of rain has not been forecast by the Met Office anytime soon, and their fears is that the short amount of rain well may produce flash flooding in parts of the Country, but for all our long term needs it may as well be a million miles away from us.

[@home9556kefr]

We all need to change and communicate honestly about what's good and what's not good for us because we are nature, we are not separate from nature but we decided to place ourselves above everything else without caring for it. One thing we might know is capitalism isn't good for nature.

[@strikeeaglemodels1588]

Well Billons of mobile phones,iPads and laptops on charge how much Pollution does that cause.Besides that this is a natural evolutionary event it’s nothing to do with pollution

[@vhawk1951kl]

Change what and communicate what to what end? Who is to decide what is (whatever you mean by) "good" and not good? Is simply not true to say that droughts and similar are unprecedented, they have been what are called droughts in England from time to time for centuries, most notably during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1, when there was a fashion if the gossip and hearsay about the past are mostly reliable or can be verified at wits of really cannot. This piece is simply propaganda for the religion of global warming/climate change, which is a sub- religion of the religion modernism which is merely a passing fad or fashion

[@Answersonapostcard]

no, we don't.

[@Cruner62]

Humans can control the weather patterns using cloud seeding - make the rain fall in one part and prevent it in others.

[@watcher805]

Don't waste your time on the idiots man. They're unsavable.

[@Venomous28]

I wonder if it said Doncster on the auto prompt

[@soniczforever5470]

Oh dear

[@49cchris]

Waste time what the lady saying, the amount of oil 🛢 we used world wide & consumed from the start is alarming, not to mention coal plants

[@cassandra2249]

In a one word GREED.

[@garnhamr]

wow knee high you say? i've never heard of a deeper lake

[@user-kz8ik8cg2c]

nationalize your water

[@Extiiinct]

"just to give you an idea, if this lake had water in it... i would be wet..."

[@user-sx6eu4rg2x]

The older generations leaving us younger generations to clean up the mess they made.

[@Ponieslad]

A favourite saying with these reports is "Could Be "

[@italopozzuoli6219]

The nicest news program from UK

[@peterallman8474]

"...unchartered waters..." 3:23. Guess she meant "uncharted".

[@peter_roth_8812]

"Paris climate change agreement: the world’s greatest diplomatic success" The Guardian 2015

[@jdillayoyo1539]

It's genuinely tragic

[@goawakeneveryone4365]

The lake has been there since the second ice age? Then the man said, and here we are on the dried out bed of one of the wetlands we created? ...... Then he said a one in one hundred year event of floods in death valley and said these events are becoming more and more likely? ..

[@demise50]

she said she would usually be submerged in water. then they guy said its knee deep water.

[@toptastic66]

I don't suppose military personnel will help fire fighters when wildfires break out across the UK!!

[@toram6210]

Why are they keep showing the summer time images ?

[@sameaulahad2824]

And they blame you and ask you to keep track of your carbon footprint lol

[@hellsbells4317]

Yep! Absolute bollox ...

[@biscuit4259]

Build back wetter is brilliant! I’ve a super crush on that woman saying very clearly what is needed!

[@daz3434]

So at the start the reporter said it would be over her head with water then the Man said knee height all across 🤷‍♂️

[@bcs7686]

So a man mad lake dried up in the summer who would of thought it

[@jacquelinefoote8081]

The so called power people new this problem years and years ago 😡

[@bryanwalker6125]

Play back your report and count how many times you say "you know" and "um"!

[@skatedd2451]

You want summer to be winter and winter to be summer and then you complain it's too cold....

[@deusvlad2.083]

7:33 build back wetter thats what she said lol

[@ktktktkt0707]

Ok so tell us how to fix it?

[@paulhicks8982]

The Defra minister should change his name to George Useless.

[@karate4348]

The horrible result of us thinking we are not animals. Beyond tragic, Beyond terror and that is for all of life including animals including us why have allowed ourselves to be excluded from the nature of ourselves? because we have been civilized from time in the womb made to be civil rather than made to care for each other each other meaning all of life.

[@MYNAMEISSIN112]

She sand “complete submerged “ In knee high water? Wtf?

[@HairByJamesAnnabel]

Last summer Australia had 3 biblical floods, in less than 2 months. 10 months before that Australia had a fire larger than all of England

[@Marek19822801]

This is very wrong you’re pumping waste to the river shame on your government

[@wraith4015]

consumer is to blame for SOME of the water loss tho we take somethings like its free, water is the easy thing to miss understand, its there all the time if you turn the tap on, just this year i got water barrels, i never water plants in my garden these are for future use because plants will need water more and more. why not catch it and then use it when its needed, everyone should have 1 or 2 of these its a must thing.

[@alntr2872]

How can you adapt to not having water? The rivers and lakes are not coming back. It's about survival, adaptation is a band aid at best.

[@jilumiah]

Best summer in 50 years ☀️, plenty of water 💦 in Costco

[@marktwain368]

Kindly elaborate on your statement that the drought is "Mother Nature's way of saying ENOUGH!"

[@justanothervoice9683]

Asda, Tesco, all the big brands plastic-ing up our planet. Rice can come in a brown bag ffs

[@abdelmrabet100]

Water should be collected ....how come country in North Africa Morocco are keeping all parked very green and getting watered every day ....must be doing something wrong

[@dvsfreek]

NOW a very good time to dig it out twice the depth , underground water storage balloons etc..

[@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo]

'wetland we created'...'since the second ice age' (that would be the Cryogenian, 850-635 million years ago).

[@julieyates405]

South East Water were unable to attend significant water leaks for days, with us watching water flow down the drain with a water crisis pending due to 'staff shortages'.....

[@debb6393]

The spent loads of money guarding (bought in contractors) a piece of land they own in Holywell (they swindled owners out of in 1800s) they don’t do anything with the land an a very hippy hippy had camped up there last summer. He was a conservationist type and some of the water guys were happy he was keeping eye on land but the suits decided otherwise. Incidentally the guards drove all over land and left pizza boxes, food wrappers, cans and bottles and cigarette ends everywhere and basically sat on their phones intimidating people as they were at top of public steps.

[@seamusmac777]

We can't "enter uncharted waters" because we don't have enough water!!!

[@broGabiza]

Instead of talking , start dredging these shallow rivers and lakes so that when 6he rains come, we can have big reservoirs. The other thing is to reduce fossil fuels and focus on renewable energy

[@Sausagerills]

Britain will be fine the amount of rain it puts down in autumn/winter