Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in UK near 40°C

Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by msrenee on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:55PM (#32154602)

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but to say it was nearly 40 Celsius when the recorded temp was 38 C is an exaggeration. When I lived in New Mexico, it would hit 40 C for a couple days at a time in the summer. That sucked. Where I'm at in the Midwest, the temp hits 38 C for a couple of days at a time in the summer. It's a big difference in what kind of precautions you need to take.

I realize they don't have the infrastructure to deal with the heat the way we do, but tell me that and then tell me the actual temperature reading. Don't round up 2 degrees C like it doesn't matter.

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Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by nicoburns on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:31PM (#32155117)

It has hit 40 in a bunch of places in the UK today https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62217282.amp

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Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by msrenee on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @03:07PM (#32156434)

That changes things. I was just going by the article.

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Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by bregma on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:49PM (#32155402)

Be thankful they're giving out a temperature within 10 F of the actual observation. Where I live the TV news has stopped giving out temperature at all and just reports the "feels like" humidex index, a made-up number that makes everyone feel smug about how well they're bearing the load of global warming.

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Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by pixl97 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:56PM (#32155511)

The humidex is more important for people.

100F with 10% humidity is hot.

100F with 90% humidity is deadly.

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Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by msrenee on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @06:53AM (#32163899)

I've never heard it called a humidex index, just heat index. It's pretty invaluable here where the humidity gets high enough that your sweat doesn't evaporate. In the desert, I just had to wear sunscreen and keep drinking water. In the Midwest, it can be 10 degrees cooler and you have to stop and find somewhere to cool down regularly. Your body just can't dump heat with that much moisture in the air.

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Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U... by timomax2 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:28PM (#32155073)

Typical hot daytime temperature at this time of year is 22 to 25. It could easily be 17 or 18. For us 38 is almost 40.

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