Heatwave live: Britain swelters on hottest July day on record

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2015/jul/01/heatwave-live-britain-hottest-day-2015
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Summary: Britain swelters on hottest July day since records began

Here’s what’s been happening so far today:

Heathrow has recorded temperatures of 36.7C, beating the previous record for the month of July from 2006.
It is hotter than Miami, LA, Rome and Barcelona, with Kingston-upon-Thames hotter than Kingston, Jamaica.

Now that's hot!

[randys1]

1. Climate change real, racism real. Need to find liberals to talk to about this

[malaise]

2. Yes indeed

This planet is way too hot and it's our fault

[randys1]

4. Cant fix this if people in power are more concerned about their pocketbooks than anything else

lots of that everywhere

[Romeo.lima333]

3. desertification is starting

36c=98f

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5. Unprecedented June Heat on Four Continents; Wimbledon Roasts in Record Heat

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3031
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Unprecedented June heat scorched portions of four continents during the past week, and many all-time heat records are likely to fall across multiple continents this July as the peak heat of summer arrives for what has been the hottest year in recorded human history. Already on July 1, in Wimbledon, England--site of the classic Wimbledon tennis tournament--players are enduring the city's hottest day in tournament history. The mercury hit 96.3°F (35.7°C) at Kew Gardens, the nearest recording site, topping the previous record of 94.3°F (34.6°C) on June 26, 1976. London's Heathrow Airport has risen to 98.1°F (36.7°C) so far on July 1. This is not only a new all-time July record at that location, but also a July heat record for the UK, topping the previous record of 97.7°F (36.5°C) in Wisley on July 19, 2006.

We've already seen two of the planet's top ten deadliest heat waves in history over the past two months; the Pakistani government announced on Wednesday that the death toll from the brutal June heat wave in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, had hit 1,250. According to statistics from EM-DAT, the International Disaster Database, this makes the 2015 heat wave in Pakistan the 8th deadliest in world history. The heat wave that hit India in May, claiming approximately 2,500 lives, ranks as the 5th deadliest:

Death Tolls From the 10 Deadliest Heat Waves in World History
1) Europe, 2003: 71,310
2) Russia, 2010: 55,736
3) Europe, 2006: 3,418
4) India, 1998: 2,541
5) India, 2015: 2,500
6) U.S. and Canada, 1936: 1,693
7) U.S., 1980: 1,260
8) Pakistan, 2015: 1,250
9) India, 2003: 1,210
10) India, 2002: 1,030
10) Greece and Turkey, 1987: 1,030