Why 25 degrees really is hot in the UK | Did You Know?
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in Scotland a heatwave is declared when standing water does not freeze for 3 consecutive nights
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You know summer was quite good in Scotland. Last year it was on a Wednesday
I can confirm from the dreich north East that is true.
lol :D
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As a Brit I’ve spent plenty of time in hot climates in the US, Spain, Tenerife etc. but there is nothing like a UK heatwave for the humidity and lack of ways to cool down, it just feels so much hotter.
Beth Louise because we’re not use to going about our daily life’s at 20+ in Spain your on holiday relaxing in the pool ect in the UK your at work or home or school which makes it far worse
I hate British summer because it’s always when I’ve been at school and by the time I’ve finished the heatwave is gone
I agree. It just doesn't feel natural and the sunburn stings a little more.
U guys are pathetic
Amin Taibi keep quiet, you large boy
You can’t climatise in uk cos it goes from being shitty rainy cold weather to 25c in a matter of a couple days. It’s all over the place. Could be hot in the morning then turn freezing cold and raining in the afternoon
melboune is famous for having "4 seasons in one day"
Yeah I can remember so many times in summer where days have a been hot and sunny, and then cloudy, cold and hailing
@@splva1362 can confirm. I visited victoria a few years ago and, as a brit, I was shocked at how changeable the weather was. Cold in the morning, 30c and burning by lunchtime, a thunderstorm for tea time and gale force winds by bed time.
in the grand scheme of climates, the uk doesn't have many extremes in terms of weather. The summers stay pretty cool and the winters stay relatively mild. Where I live, it will go through that cycle you have in the uk in less than a day and happens all the time. Last september here in Denver, it went from 32c one day to snowing in less than 24 hours, not even exaggerating. Summers are around 30c and winters are about 0c You brits have the gulf stream keeping weather somewhat consistent. Out in the middle of the continent we have no oceans to moderate swings in temp, but we survive.
@@splva1362 Yep, I just came here to say exactly that, sounds like burn city lol
It actually also has a lot to do with humidity. Maybe even more than housing.
60-80% sometimes.
@@the-based-jew6872 when it's hot the humidity goes down below 40% though, and in the winter it can be 100%
Because it’s even more humid in Australia?
@@wowftw120 that’s why sometimes early morning where temp is in tens/twenties with high humidity, it’s hard to sleep
@@wowftw120 but because warm air can hold more water. that 40% in the heat and 100% in the cold could be the same water %
Also, the heatwaves in the UK are humid, as opposed to dry heat like Spain, and this makes them far more unbearable as sweating to cool the body down is far harder.
Thanks kerry
Indeed. Many thanks kerry.
I spent 3 years in Singapore where the humidity is far more intense than the UK but at least they have more air conditioning there.
Queensland Australia, not unusual for it to be 40+ with the humidity 95% to 100%.
@@gregmyatt9932 i can tell you that rarely happens haha, more like 80% at the very highest during the day with a temperature like that and around 50-70% normally, maybe 90-100 during the night but it's cooler by then. The humidity in Orlando right now is 56% at 32C for a benchmark.
Using Celsius is no inconvenience. It's the global unit, based on common sense. Fahrenheit is just waste of time, space and temperature.
Fahrenheit is old and shouldn't be used anymore as evidenced by the fact less than 4 countries use it
@Ambrose Burnside If I were to be fiercely proud of my country's history, I'd force everyone to use our ancient methods of measurement, like "leiviskä" or "senttaali".
Fahrenheit is more precise being that it uses more ranges to measure air temperature. Also Celsius is based on the freezing and boiling of water - which is cool.. if we lived in water. Ultimately, Celsius is great for science and experiments. Fahrenheit works well just for measuring air temperature.
@Ambrose Burnside you use 100 cents to the dollar so your'e nearly metricated ,dont worry it doesnt hurt and we still use feet and inches when talking about length and height of common things (at least oldies like me do)
@@MetsMagic0416 how can farenhiet be more precise ? measurement is measurement do you have imperial dollars of 12 cents to the dollar?
Humidity makes a HUGE difference. We recently had a dry 30c and it was so nice, few weeks ago we had a very humid 28c and it was so awful. The difference was crazy!
That’s why we have to explain the weather in Canada to elsewhere even though our actual temperatures aren’t that much but our feels like temperatures are extreme
The dew points in the UK are almost never high enough for humidity to make a difference there, British people think it's humid due to acclimatisation as mentioned in this video, but compared to most places the UK never really feels humid even when the humidity is reaching 100%, thanks to its low dew points
I've been living in Spain now for 5 years and the biggest difference I've noticed is that at 35c⁰ in Spain the air is still fresh and clear but in England at 35c⁰ the air gets so stuffy you can't breath especially if you are doing any physical activity so I'd say that humidity levels are the biggest difference.
@Nathan Taffijn that's definitely not it, I live in the north and it gets very humid here too. The heat island effect is not the main cause of humidity in the UK
It really never feels that humid in the UK, the dew points are too low
Canada’s humidity levels are too extreme
Look here, im in the UK its 25 degrees and im dying but then i go on holiday to spain its 35 degrees and im fine.
I swear its the region that depends
true true
There's definitely something happening for sure. People literally dying here at the moment.
I think it’s because of the humidity
No it's you.
Your body gets acclimatised.
Its the fact that you probably have air con. You don't get that in the uk
To sum up British weather on Tuesday I left the house at 7am and it was 2c with ice on the car and when I drove home at 4pm it was 26c
This whole week has been all over the place, freezing cold in the morning and uncomfortably warm in the afternoon
i hate everything about sun and heat, i cant wait until the sun finnaly goes whoop autumn
Same here in germany -.-
Oh God yeah Tuesday was terrible
I put on all my warm clothes because I literally got frozen back to sleep in the morning, then got boiled by mid day and had to leave my window open at night lmao
Same, mate! I walked to school in my winter coat because it was freezing in the morning, but then at 3PM, it was bloody warm. 😂
One of the main reasons why British weather is Like That is cuz we're situated in a really awkward place where we get very variable weather, making it difficult to acclimatise. We get cold winds from the Arctic, warm winds from the tropics, dry winds from the continent and rain from pretty much everywhere, especially from the Atlantic.
We literally get everyone else's unwanted weather.
Thank you for making this. Most people outside of the UK just don’t understand and this video explains it really well🙏🏻
Bro i keep my ac on 25 degrees 😂
@@bannanamanoo4775 congrats we don't have ac x
Last year it snowed in April but there was a heatwave in May?!?! That's British weather for you...
edgy lads that’s climate change for you
Or climate change..
And than you have Norway. This year it was 25degees in midel of April, 1. of May it was snowing 😣
@@Baudiahd Hot or cold it's climate change, you. The clue is in the name, the climate is changing. It's not an agenda. It's just obvious observation
Snowed in May here in Norway recently, there was a heatwave just before it. Its climate change
I swear to god British heat just hits differently. I was strolling around in France wearing a hoodie at 30 and was alright but the second the temperature goes over 20 in the UK I'm in shorts and shirts.
Logan R its humidity that kills you. I was on holiday in St Lucia it was really hot but nice, we went to Barbados for our third week, same temperature but humidity was bad. We had to come home early because it made us feel ill, sweating buckets all the time, drinking tons of water, feeling sick, bad headache, it was miserable and its the same here when it gets too hot, it makes it hard to breathe.
How humid is it?
I mean precents
For example, where I live its around 65% in summer, and 33 degrees
Probs the humidity bc it’s close to the ocean
@@racingecho5324 I also live 30 minutes from the sea, it could be 5 minutes if it was just a straight line to the sea, and its not that humid, like 65% in summer
Australia: Damm why are these Brits complaining about temperatures that aren’t even that warm.
Meanwhile on the other side of the world: Damm why are these Aussies complaining about temperatures that aren’t even that cold.
Idk man I would consider 5 degrees Celsius really cold.
@@ZelenskyPlane 10 degrees for me
@@Dksnejwnbskeuebe what? 5 degrees is like neutral. but 10?! That shits like warm
@@Dksnejwnbskeuebe around 10 for me
For me below 15 degrees is to cold. The frozen air just gets inside me and I can't move
Australia: how can you not handle the heat?
me in Scotland: *what heat ?*
People forget we're an island, it gets very, very humid because of all the moisture in the air. On a really hot and humid day you can feel like you're in a tropical area like Florida. I worked with a guy from Thailand once and he said our summer sometimes reminds him of the jungle back home because it's the same kind of heat.
I live in the Maldives and I was born and raised here. Humidity is also usually very high everyday, and for me below 25 degrees is cold. 29 is fairly nice and above that is warm, but not that warm. Above 31 is really hot.
Yeah I always forget than the UK is an island. I'm gonna have to get a mug with it written on to remind myself.
My housemate is from brunei. He insisted that the UK heatwaves are horrible for him lol, and it does remind him of the jungle.
I am a kiwi living in Australia now, was working in a kitchen in london when the temps were 37 C outside and the ambient temperature in the 500 year old kitchen was 51 at the point farthest from the oven and friers.
@@peterjessiman7005 Jesus Christ, how did you not get heatstroke?
That's less than halfway from boiling point
Properties in the UK are just not built for hot temperatures. Sleeping in a heatwave in the UK is horrendous. Thick double bricked walls, double or triple glazed windows, thick carpets, strict regulations on insulation so insulation in the wall cavity and loft, no aircon... ect, ect.
Here in the philippines, even if we use cooling fans, open the windows, wear clothing as little as possible, it is still hot. Add the fact that power outages frequently happens during summer. Imagine 42 degrees, high humidity, and no ways to cool down and it is work day, not a vacation.
No breeze at night is very shitty too
In theory, all of those things (other than air conditioning) should keep heat out as well as in, though. I’ve got no insulation in my property, double glazed windows, and laminate flooring, and none of that stopped the indoor temperature of my property reaching 28•C recently.
I think we’re going to have to embrace air conditioning if the summers are going to keep this up, which they are, ‘cause global warming.
My house is pretty cool. I wouldn't call the weather we have a heatwave, honestly, it's not that hot!
@@thriftyfreebies the issue there being that air con is terrible for the environment so will make the problem worse
lmao people in england used to be like "OMG 25 DEGREE HEATWAVE!!" it's 2022 and it's going to be 40 degrees in london, what the fuc-
Yeah 25°C is nice here now
Anyone else here after the freak 2022 heatwaves in the UK (especially England) where it was consistently 30C+ and even reached over 40C for the first time ever
"It takes about two weeks to acclimatise".
Key point, hot weather in the UK very rarely lasts this long, so by the time you are adapting to it, it breaks down and the temperature plunges ten degrees with rain.
The only sensible answer amongst all this nonsense! The hypothalamus takes time to adapt our thermoregulation processes. By the time it's rubbing its hands, job well done, it has to start again.
So how do you explain people from hotter climates finding it extremely humid here when they come from hotter climates themselves??
The temperature in the UK must be very stable, as I've lived in places where there was a 16 degree difference between day and night. That 10-degree drop would be just a few hours apart.
@@EstrellaViajeViajero yeah there's usually only about a 5°c difference between day and night here
@@moby786 because they adapt to uk weather first
Entering a building only to discover it’s just as hot or even hotter inside
I love your profile pic :)
My house is like that😂
Bhargav Kalpa Hazarika mine is the opposite
If you’re a Londoner and try the Overground, its the opposite
Welcome to the UK.
What gets you in the UK is the humidity, it feels so sticky and hot if the temperature gets to about 25°c. I work with Poles, Italians and Angolans and we all struggle with the heat in England.
I've been in the Philippines during il niño with daily temperatures of 40°c plus but I acclimatised quickly. I think the ever changing and unpredictable weather here makes it harder for your body to naturally prepare itself.
Humidity isn't really much of an issue in the UK, the dew points never get high enough compared with many other places
@@aonary5382 tell that to my, and many other people's bodies. 🙄
@@danielcampbell9647 will thats explained in this very video - acclimatisation, to be fair I spent 19 years in the UK and can count on 1 hand the number of days I found to be humid
I’ve experienced this so many times! I’m from Canada and when I was in Australia everyone assumed that the winters would be easy for me, but they were more horrible and depressing than any Canadian winter I’d had. Likewise, a heat wave of 29 degrees in Montreal was way worse than a normal 35 degree day in Sydney.
I'm from Chicago, and I went to Australia in August 2019. Melbourne was the worst (in terms of weather, it's a beautiful city). The high was 10c and the low was 5c, but it felt much colder.
I wonder why she didn't mention humidity: the UK has a very humid climate which can make the cold and heat more intense.
this is exactly what i was thinking. a house or ''aclimitisation'' has nothing to do with how you percieve temperatures. its ALL down to humidity.
damn i guess UK is the only place that has high humidity
@@maxmitchell70 it’s not, but it’s still a generally pretty wet place.
@@maxmitchell70 Of course Australia does in some regions too, but people don't usually associate cold places with humidity.
Humidity goes down a lot during the heat, I never find it hot in the UK
Thank you for explaining our struggles to the world. We're not weak, we just live in brick ovens xD
hahaha
As a southern European living in northern Scotland I can attest to this. 25C feels like already too much where back home it's not unusual to withstand 40C without much worry. Scots though are a bit oblivious to what to do during heat waves. Their idea of keeping hydrated is to increase the beer intake.
@@joelnogueira7692 standard across the UK, the news tells us to drink larger quantities of water, beer has water in it, so why not... We will worry about the fact alcohol marked you dehydrated quicker later on when the hangover has kicked in and we regret everything 😂
Here's an interesting question for you and for all UK folk round here for that matter.
I recently (less than 2 years ago) moved to the UK to Cornwall and live in a nice bungalow in a forest. Now we're about to move to a different place and whenever I speak to agents, they always try to convince me that I would need to move to a house^ with a family not a bungalow. Would anyone be able to elaborate on why is that? I mean ... this bungalow is moderately cool in the summer (as it has the raised floor with the airgap under) and perfectly warm in the winter (as it has double glazing all round) and the angle of the roof also ensures that it doesn't really heat up when the sun is higher up (in summer) and does somewhat heat up when the sun is lower (in winter). soooo why do you (not you specifically, but UK folks in genenral) hate them bungalows and deem them unsuitable for family living all year round? I found that this summers heat wave (26-29 down here in Cornwall) is bearable when in your home you can actually cool down and sleep properly.
^for those who might be unfamiliar with the different UK terms: bungalow is that one story house with brick external walls with huge a** windows on all sides and drywalls inside. House, the brick oven Lauryn mentioned - double stone / brick on the outside, brick walls inside, small windows.
Its lovely and warm in our houses in winter, but an oven death trap in summer heatwaves.
It's interesting. I was talking to a cabbie from Somalia in London the other week when it was 32 degrees, and he was saying how hot days in London are far worse than he can remember in Somalia, even when the temperature is in the 40's. I've been in Australia when it was 40 degrees, and it felt the same as a London 32.
It’s gonna hit 40 degrees on Monday and Tuesday and schools are flipping closing
@@idilhassan1959 I too am from the future.
This popping up now when it’s just hit 40c we are melting 😂
I've been to Turkey when it was 40 in the shade and was fine. Sitting in my garden last week in the UK I could feel the sun burning into me after a few minutes. Very strange.
It's because of humidity, it's way higher in the UK so sweat can't evaporate in to the air as well as in turkey.
Same here. I spent 4 months in Vegas and found being outdoors fine due to the dry heat. Back in the UK I was dying in 30°c heat, think it's the humidity too.
@@tungstentuktuk24 Sorry to hear you don't like Turkey. I've enjoyed some lovely holidays there and always found the locals very hospitable & friendly, especially if you can learn some basic Turkish.
I worked with lads from Poland who said -3 here is as bad as -20 over there
@@Yet_Another_Steve was a joke calm down nancy
I'm a geordie and anything above -5 is t shirt weather.
Same in Wales bro, shorts all year round me
Haha you've got that reet 👌
I'm a scouser........every day is shorts n sliders weather
I'm spanish and anything under 5°C is bedsheet+chimney time
Jimski UK shorts n sliders off ya nut on coke 🤣
After getting temperatures at nearly 40C this summer, and another recent heatwave over 30C, I wish I still considered 25C to be really hot.
Facts
25c is nice
As someone who live in the tropics this... actually explains a lot. I remember visiting England when I was 16 and my cousin told us they were in the middle of a heatwave and I couldn't believe him cause it was so cool outside, but it makes since that they wouldn't be used to that kind of weather or that their houses and infrastructure just makes the heat worse than it actually is. Ya learn something new everyday.
Who else is watching this in the UK whilst dying of a heat stroke.
Yep
I was dying yesterday from the heat but today it’s cold again, good old British weather😂
Back to the rain and 16 degrees
@Ugh James did you watch the video?
Checked the weather, now it's 14 degrees
I'm Southern Italian and grew up with summers of 30+ degrees average but I've been living in the UK for the past few years and the other day I almost fainted from the heat when London reached 33 degrees lol
I grew up with summers where it sometimes reaches 50° in the middle east, I've been living in Tokyo and I can't bear it when the weather reach 30°.
@Abishek alwin my country is full of you guys :D
Abishek alwin
Did you not even listen to the video?
If it’s 20 degrees or more people cannot manage it as we have no ways to cool ourselves and our houses are meant to keep in all of the heat and let none of it out
Abishek alwin would u like a cookie sir
Yuzan summers in Tokyo are very humid and heavy
Tokyo heat is horrendous
I lived in Japan and the Japanese heat is very peculiar
In Ireland a heat wave means every drop of rain that ever fell gets to evaporate upwards again. The humidity is intense. The bogs even get crispy 🥵
In Australia it hardly rains at all, that's probably why it gets so humid in the British Isles
This is all so true!! When I (an Aussie) went to New York over Christmas, I was absolutely shocked at how warm it was inside everywhere! It was super disconcerting at first - going from outside to inside was like stepping into a sauna! Previously Id kinda thought all the cloakrooms seemed a bit unneccessary and over the top, but no, you would definitely not want to keep your coats on in all of that!
Whereas in Australia, it's often not really that much warmer inside than outside in winter? In fact, on a sunny day without wind it's probably warmer outside in the sun. If you were walking around in public you'd keep your coat on unless you sat down to eat or something, and rug up warmly inside.
I visited in the UK this summer for a week during the heatwave. Coming from Kenya, I assure you that the heat was crazy even compared to equatorial standards
MightyAfricans completely off topic but how to native Africans feel about us non native Africans ( African Americans) #AFAF
@@marky8013 depends who you ask, Africa is a huge continent of almost 1 billion people, but there is a lot of pride and strong sense of comradery and goodwill to our overseas kin in America, Caribbean, Europe and in Brazil. A lot of the positive love and inspiration towards comes from your role models such as politicians and civil rights leaders, musicians, athletes, celebrities etc.. only thing downside is only white people tend to visit Africa for tourism and trade, we don't understand why blacks don't feel proud of their Roots. Also weirdly when my dad was a student in MSU he said he found it easier to relate to whites than black who were very hostile to them.
MightyAfricans I’ve never thought about it like that. Wow💯
@@marky8013 I'm Rwandan ethnically but grew up in London, and I love AAs they're culture is amazing and so cool, it's a shame though some african americans don't view themselves that way, and also alot of Nigerians look down on African Americans for some reason.....but I think they're cool as fuck :)
Yes it was hitting 35 degrees
I love how everyone's in the comments being like "Ha ItS 40 DeGreEs HeRe" completely missing the entire point of the video
Except they didn't.
The video is made so people don't judge others for what they perceive as extreme weather conditions.
Pointing out your temperature alone is not doing that.
@@splizzex I think you've missed the point of the comment though. The majority of temperature related comments are along the lines of "20 degrees in the UK - Too Hot, 45 Degrees in (hot climate), nice breeze for a walk". They're completely ignoring the whole premise of the video, which is that yes, temperatures are higher in other locations. But other locations have far more acclimatised structures as well as their own acclimisation to the environment. You could play Cricket in the UK in 35 degree heat, but we're not used to it, and we don't have buildings to go and cool down in.
@@tinyrodent2821 I think you've missed the point of my comment.
Saying "Ha, it's 40 degrees here where I live" is not drawing a comparison or mocking other countries since there is no mention being made of other countries in this sentence.
One can remark about the very high temperatures of their home country while not making any disrespectful remark towards other countries and their heat tolerance.
@@splizzex When completely missing the context and motive for saying it then no it's not drawing a comparison or mocking other countries. On text, it's hard to tell if it's mocking or just pointing it out. But irl, you can tell by the different tones. or did I missed the point of your comment?
@@ElonHusky Only in public buildings or offices. We don't have A.C in our houses.
In London, about a couple weeks ago in temperatures rised to 40 Celsius when I was there. not only was it extremely warm but also very very humid. also although there was wind it was like a hairdryer was blasting heat at my entire body. not a pleasant feeling and train tracks were "melting" due to the heat so i lot of trains and the tube lines were temporarily closed.
Came to say it was 40 yesterday and I don't know how I survived 😂
Another point often missed about higher latitude heatwaves is that the sun is up for 19+ hours, there's very little cooling opportunity during the short night.
I made this point a while back. I had to sleep downstairs with our patio doors open because my entire house is a suntrap. As soon as the sun rises, we have to close off the patio.
I woke up thinking it was nearly sunrise from the look of the sky, no. It was actually just 2:30am and we're still in that phase of not having true meterologial night time.
Of course the opposite is true in winter which is why we're all grumpy. Too little vitamin D lol
That moment when you open the window for cool air and the air outside is the same temperature as the air inside
What I did for heatwaves this year was to open the blinds at night, along with the windows, and close them in the mornings and early afternoons, to allow for more heat to escape during the evenings and nights and for less heat to enter throughout much of the daytime. I don’t have to worry about my room heating up further during later afternoons very much, because my windows face Eastwards, and, by then, my windows don’t get much sunlight.
What was not taken into account in the video is that the better insulation of the houses not only keeps the heat in the house better but also the cold (if available).
The isolation works both ways.
But many northern Europeans do not have air conditioning, which means that the house warms up over time (adapts to the outside ambient temperature despite the insulation).
Higher latitudes receive less sunlight? What are you talking about?
I'm Portuguese (living in UK) and we can easilly get 30 degrees in Portugal. Believe when I say that I suffer more with 25 degrees in the UK than 35 in Portugal ;)
Idm 25 celsius, it’s the 30’s that become a problem for me
@@T0M_X *Philippines*
44 degree :))
Summer
why
@@bigmac786 In the UK I live in Bedfordshire (Inland) in PT I am from the seaside. What happends is that the heat is more humid in the England. So with hot days, you will feel the heat more
Ive been to portugal and im from the uk. I agree with your comment.
Now UK is hit by unusual hot weather reaching as high as 40C' for past whole week.
If 26C' is unbearably hot, 40C' is like you're in the furnace!
Humid atmosphere + only 0.5% of houses having air conditioning + Houses being designed to keep in heat = feeling like you're melting when it's only 20°
The UK does not have a humid atmosphere 😂😂😂 the dew points are too low
"This house is called a Queenslander, its made of wood and stands on stumps"...."And the gap underneath is where the killer spiders live".
IRONSSSS
Don't forget the snakes ..
Nah mate. The killer spiders move inside to avoid the oppressive heat and humidity. They aren't stupid enough to go outside in summer.
COYI ⚒
IRONS
It’s the humidity that gets to you in the UK. You can’t lift your arm without sweating.
Josef same here in philippines, once u get out of electric fans... you sweat almost instantly (our summer this year was the hottest so far (40-50c))
Its true, but humidity in England is usually no more than 50%, whereas somewhere like thailand can get 85%
@@JoDyMa humidity in england is nothing on the tropics.
@@kieronpegler5358 humidity in England is nothing full stop 😂
Try visiting tropical climates or even subtropical climates in the summer....then you'll learn what humidity really feels like
Bruh it’s 40 degrees today 🤦♂️
I am so lucky that I was in Spain during the 40c heatwave. I was surprised that Spain actually felt colder than England for once
It’s weirdly overly humid here, I go Spain on holiday normally and it’s always near 40 , but I don’t struggle with the weather there anywhere near as much as the uk
Coz assuming you go to a hotel by the beach you get the sea breeze and pool also there’s air con
@@sharxzy8582 no, I’m in a villa on top of a hill in the middle of Malaga
@@sharxzy8582
Humidity is an important factor in the perception of temperature.
The drier the air, the better the sweat can evaporate and thereby cool the body.
The UK is a very green country. Look at the thumbnail and compare how green the UK is compared to Australia. Green means water and when it's hot that water has to go somewhere.
I think this is because the uk is an island, but so is Australia, it could be where we are in the world, but I think it has something to do with us being islands
To give some context only 0.5% of homes in the UK have air conditioning.
Almost all have radiators instead
Well, i'm a lucky son of a gun, I got a radiator and air conditioning.
@@pinkmanlyrubberduck6164 Cockey dolphin
Oah.
@@sirborkington1052 Wait do yanks not have radiators?
I'm a Brit who's never felt hotter than in London during the summer, never felt colder than when I lived in Sydney over winter, and feels about right now that I live in Lisbon (most of the time 🤣)
It's relatively hot. I live in New Zealand. Over here it's approximately 15 degrees. To you 10 degrees might feel very cold to you but since I'm used to it it doesn't feel that cold. the same could be said for hot temperatures.
My Australian friend visited a few years ago during a heatwave, the first thing he said to me wasn't "hi" or "nice to see you", but "it's f***in' hot, mate", and that was all the validation I need tbh
Wow
Fun fact: Us brits are never satisfied with the weather
Fun fact: idk
😂
My Pommie rellies love Adelaide's weather.
Facts.
We** Brits. We are never satisfied, so we brits.
As a Brit who has travelled in on the tube during a heatwave, i can certify that it is almost unbearable. And i often spent my time wondering how on earth mankind has managed to put a man on the moon, but no one can come up with a way of keeping the tube bearable during the summer
Simple, the world is fascinated with objects outside of it, not your personal comfort.
Just finished up with the annual heatwave in England again, and waking up at about 3 in the morning, it's freezing. England can be very weird at times.
Born and raised in Australia, used to heat. Spent 1 summer in London and I felt like fainting though it was only 29°C.
Brrooo imm telling the lack of proper ventilation and how the homes are built to retain heat. Public transport is basically an oven, buses are worse🤢🤢
Aaron Lawford 86 F
29 Celsius = 84.2 Degree Fahrenheit
Why would you Aussies even come here to UK,they hate us.
Man up bro, you are letting us down.
So basically: no air conditioning, buildings are designed to retain heat, and the climate is humid which makes it more uncomfortable and difficult to cool down.
basically: one lives in a nice home the other lives in a brick box
Your profile picture is a fabrication
@@Agnes135 Ha! I assure you, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was not a fabrication.
I hope to see a United Ireland again some day.
@@DisturbedAidan2 I perfer Ireland to be annexed by the UK becuz the UK alone is small compared to the other European country's I want the UK to like the size of Germany france and Spain it gives me extreme ocd aslo I want portagal to aslo be annexed but by spain
@@gvc7314 You’re right. I reckon a lot of wars were started because leaders had OCD about their territorial shape.
👀👀 watching this 3 years later when we just reached 40°C
Short version: Were used to this country being really cold
So when it heats up to 25° we feel the heat really good
This is why we bang on about the weather so bloody much 😂
There has never been a day in British history when someone hasn't complained about the weathering never just right
Driving Cat obviously not
@@biscuit9712 they will complain about the heat from.hell as well!!and so will you!
Last night it rained here in Algeria and the temperature was literally 35°, just wtf?
Because its wierd
Us brits should make a video called "Did you know aussies find 20°cold?"
Yess
20° can feel pretty cold at times
as an Aussie some of us wear full covered clothing in that weather
Temperature is a really bad measurement of "temperature"
@@caitlintrincado3986 especially when it is windy
2022 in the UK we reached 40 degrees so yeah, 25 degrees is fine in UK not 40
This video popped in my feed at a time when the temperature there is 45+ 🤣
It's all down to the Humidity, dry heat vs Humid heat. Humidity in the Uk is around 98% often.
Also we get like 18 hours on sunlight a day, whereas somewhere else like when I was in Guangzhou, it can be 27 Celsius but it's dark 14 hours a day to cool off because it's their autumn/winter
As someone who grew up in tropical Australia.
A hahahahahahaha hahaha.
You think uk has a monopoly on humidity or something? 47 and 98% isn't an uncommon even for 9 months of the year in parts of Australia.
@@Mrsquiggley no we don't, the video is about this subject and British people are trying to explain. You're just here to sneer. If the subject was about the fly blown shit hole you come from you my have a point.
@@Mrsquiggley It doesn't matter where in the world a Humid heat is, it's always more unbearable than a dry heat, maybe you come from somewhere Humid in Australia, however your experience is not the average for Australia, as you know most of it is sand and dust, not Tropical and as such they would not understand. Honestly 41 in a dry Cypriot heat is nicer than a sticky 30 in the UK.
Lol try being in Guangdong China when it's just rained and still 29 celcius. You bathe in your own sweat, no breeze can dry it off, and you're breathing in all in. Wrap yourself in a waterproof coat in a UK heatwave and you'll see what it's like. UK heat is dry heat.
UK: (25°C) "It's like Sauna in here"
Philippines: (40°C) "Let's drink Coffee"
Finally someone said it 🤣
Indonesia: (38°C) "yeah, let's eat Indomie..."
@@InfiniteF1 i actually do that while drinking coffee
Same in Brazil 🤣🤣
Brazil (40°): Let's drink coffee for breakfast, after lunch and after dinner. Also, let's take at least 3 hot water showers during the day.
Brazil (20°): Gimme some sweater brrrrrrrr...
Its called humidity 95f in very humid day will feel worse in the shade than 110 f in dry temps
This aged well... try 42c 🥵
Whenever it strikes 30 or above here in the UK, I've known some friends to go out for drives-because a car is the only thing the vast majority of British people own that has an AC.
Yeah did myself over the heatwave recently go on the motorway.
i just pour water over myself and it works (apart from damp clothes lol)
Polluting morons. Buy an EV.
I have a motorcycle and mesh motorcycle gear and it's been the best way to stay cool so long as you keep moving... People always say aren't you hot in that. Though I wish it was white or light coloured, people making summer gear in dark colours are pretty silly
@@honesty_-no9he EVs suck. Imagine having to replace the battery for £7000 average. EVs are cold in winter as you have to generate heat with that battery. There's still less range in a battery than there is in a petrol or diesel engine.
Air conditioning is not really a thing in the UK... neither is adequate deodorant in confined spaces...
That's France you colonial.
Mr EHEHE You are. Just put a block of ice in front of a fan.
Mr EHEHE actually there are ACs that function as both heater and cooler. It is a win win.
I mean, she says exactly that in the video...
Air conditioning isn't a thing in Norway either, but we don't complain about 25°C...
It’s kinda like how the Texans weren’t used to a tiny few inches of snow and unfortunately many people froze to death. Likewise, if you’re in a hotel in the UK during a heatwave, you won’t have aircon, the building will be designed to keep heat in, the window won’t open (by law, hotel windows don’t open) etc.
In Spain it would be hot outside and cool inside. In the uk, it’s warm outside, but hotter inside.
By law, hotel windows can’t, open? Who told you that? Tosh! Loads of Modern hotels have opening windows, and now with COVID 19 It’s imperative to open and ventilate the room. Data not dates, blubblublub.
@@robsmith4790 I’ve never been to a hotel with a window that opened more than an inch in the past 5 years. If it’s not a law, it’s a rule implemented to protect against insurance claims. But I have yet to find a hotel, or even a hostel with a window that can open.
0:21 What sort of stupid question is that?
I will take an Australian to the north pole and tell them to toughen up if they get cold....
seeing a post about 'extremes of minus 2' really gave this whole thing some perspective. -2 in england is cold for sure, but completely manageable.
Unless you're talking about -2F, which is -18C
-18C would be pretty rough but English homes are built to keep in enough heat to survive bad winters
@@AaronBish which they’re not, they specifically said they’re not using F in the video
-2 with 90% humidity and harsh winds can be percieved and felt as if it was -25
@@htasul Then there's Finland, where in January -18 might be regarded as a welcome respite and an opportunity to spend time outdoors before the next chill hits...
Though the last two winters have been pretty mild here down south: mildest in my lifetime.
My favourite thing about Britain is the random snow, rain and sunshine mixtures all in a few days like I never dress appropriately cause idk what going on lmao
Also hail. Can't have a truly mixed weather day unless there's some hail!
variousthings trueee haha
Also those days where it's just randomly summer in the middle of winter for one day.
Victoria Yep it's not the UK unless it's snowing in April, sunny in December and warm in February.
"snow, rain and sunshine mixtures all in a few days" in ONE day! Same in The Netherlands.
In the UK but grew up in the US. Can confirm that 40C here (had that for a couple of days a while back) is just death... and people do die.
I remember being in Egypt when it was 45 degrees Celsius (113F.) I have Irish blood = Lily white skin and zero capacity to tan. But this was a dry heat. Of course if I had stood, unprotected in the sunlight I would have been incinerated but actually, because there was zero humidity, as long as you were sensibly dressed, sought the shade and stayed hydrated, the temperature was quite tolerable. Conversely I have experienced 25c with very high humidity and it was absolute purgatory, genuinely difficult just to breath. The level of humidity makes a huge difference to how difficult or otherwise it is to endure both hot and cold temperatures
That lowkey diss on the USA😂
the fact the the usa can literally shit on everyone for being pussies about weather makes up for it though. 10c ain't cold and 30c ain't hot.
@@PoggersAndy As was explained in the video 10c in the UK isnt the same as 10c Cape Town is not the same in Philly. UK summers are genuinely terrible. Ive experienced both African heat and Asian humidity but at least in Southern Africa, it is dry heat (so shade actually makes a difference) and in Asia theres air con, here theres' no respite.
I went to California and Florida, the heat at mid day is hard to deal with but every store every home every car has AC so picture that in the UK but without AC, also we only get like 2 months a year of okay heat
@@ruk2227 agreed, I am from Holland, and when it is hot here it is just a dry uncomfortable hot, but whenever I go to Thailand, it's way hotter, yet it is very humid and it is quite easy to adjust to.
@@PoggersAndy 30c? I think you're forgetting about Texas. I've lived here my whole life and it's always above 30c except for two or three winter months. And it's common to break 40c during the summer.
I was waiting for a bus in about March and I live in Britain. There was heavy rain, a thunderstorm and then hot weather with sun, all while waiting for a bus. Make up your mindddd
I honestly thought it was just me like that at a bus stop😂
Ellie X no happend in a few times here when I was in school 8 years ago we had in all one lesson which lasted an hour only thing we didn’t get is snow but had sleet,hail,rain,sun,partly sunny,thuderstrom
It sounds like Singapore
Well thunderstorms usually only last half an hour or so and they can bring hail and rain and all sorts so that’s probably why it changed so fast
I've had that before and the steam coming off the floor starts burning your legs.
I've worked with a man from Turkey and a woman from Brazil and both have said the heat in England is far worse to cope with than in their own countries. Also a damp 2 degrees Celsius in England feels colder to me than low minus temperatures in some of the countries I've been to.
40 degree 2022 says hi 👋
I spent a year living in the UK. When it reached 25 C over there it did feel hotter than 25 in Australia. Don't know why, but it was noticeable, not just inside, but outside too.
Mike Haydon Maybe. Felt more humid, muggy/polluted hot though.
@Mike Haydon no it's awful. I've lived in Saudi and it's not as unbarable. London and Essex seem to be especially humid.
Come to malaysia. Hot and humid combine together :) 32c is the normal temperature here.
I can vouch for this, lived in UK and AU for 6 years each. Australia 20° is cold UK 20° is warm. No idea why.
Heat in Australia is usually quite dry, so I've heard. It's hot but that's about it. The UK is quite humid so when it gets hot, you also get very sticky and the air is a lot thicker and harder to breathe. That's why it might feel hotter in the UK.
This is spot on. I've been to some hot countries but I've NEVER been as hot as I am during a 30c heatwave in England trying to sleep in my insulated for cold weather flat. It's brutal. The heat just builds and builds during the day and gets trapped, no AC, no escape. I've honestly contemplated camping outside a few times but, luckily, it usually only lasts a few days.
JSkillz: I had bought myself a table fan, and suspended a wet hanky in front of it, and positioned it in front of my face, when I turned in for the night. Helped. Sort of. Maybe like a placebo.
I must admit, I sometimes camp out in my garden lol xD
dont waste your money on a/c buy a clarke 20 inch fan from machine mart about £40 freeze three 3 litre plastic bottles of water , place a towel on the floor behind the fan to catch the condensate and stand the bottles of frozen water on it then turn on the fan it will cool the air in the flat beautifully , the frozen bottles will thaw over four to five hours before needing to be re-frozen in 30 degree heat.
Here in Arizona we get 110°F/43°C for most of the days during the summer. However the humidity here is often below 10% which makes the heat here so much bearable.
Still being in the sun is far from pleasant and so is the heat. Every home here in AZ has Air conditioners as well obviously or else nobody would be living here.
We do have AC in the UK but you have to buy them (for your home) which can cost anywhere from £10-£70
When I moved to Australia, I thought people were taking the piss when they started complaining about the cold at 21C, but I looked at their arms and they did have goosebumps. The UK is humid, which makes moderate cold feel colder, and heat feel a LOT hotter. I've suffered through 46C with no air con in Canberra and it was nasty, but felt similar at 36C in Vietnam because of the humidity. The current humidity where I live now in the UK is usually between 60-85%, so when it gets up to 30-something all of a sudden, you really feel it. Similarly I've stood outside in a t-shirt in -26C in Austria and didn't feel as bad as -8C in a Swedish town where cars had turned a lot of the snow to slush so it was humid. There I felt like I was dying.
Basically, 'too hot' means sweating while sitting still. 'Too cold' means needing to move to prevent shivering. Those temperatures depend mostly on physiology and humidity.
Lmao north of australia still gets humid
das not it mane how does a paragraph describing how temperatures fell different depending on your geographical location make you ‘laugh your ass off’
Mr. Worldwide over here.
I love sweating on the beach doing nothing when it's too hot. Feels like free exercise lol
Humidity makes the difference. I was in Vietnam with that temperature but humidity at 70%. I was even sweating sitting in the shade.
i’m british and anything above 20c kills me lmao
edit: u know what, anything above 15c is the equivalent of hell for me lol
Damn im American anything below 20c and I have to put on a jacket it's only hot to me when it gets around 35c.
oh my god tell me about it, it was 27C last week and the air was unbearable
ellphoe anything above 15°C is too much for me
I can’t fathom putting on a jacket from 7*C above as someone from the UK.
Naqib Matin i find anything below 10C to be quite chilly😂 but depends where you’re from i guess, and the humidity
I noticed when I went back to Australia that 30 degrees in Australia feels much cooler than 30 degrees in Sweden
NZ: houses aren’t insulated so you stay cool in the summer. Then you pay an arm and leg to stay warm in the winter
The top of the North Island can kind of get away with this, I have no idea why houses were built this way in Otago or Wellington though
One summer, we experienced *48 degrees* . I went outside for a second to see what it felt like and I swear it was like being in an actual oven. I live in Queensland btw
Minifeg damn
Your profile picture fits the description
I lived in SA in that heatwave, I think it peaked at 50°. That was right before we moved to NSW. Now I'm in the UK though and this summer's heatwave reached 38, I lived in Norfolk which for some reason was the hottest place in the country and I thought I was going to die.
Same but I don't live in Queensland and we had our swimming Carnaval and the pool was so hot😰🔥🔥
Same
I like this video.
Because Temperature is in Celsius
EXACTLY!!!
Why people still follow Frankenheight, I don't know.
Notice the map at 0:33, literally ONLY America use farenhite... and they probably don't even know its just them.
@@gorillaau because it's all we've ever used. Other than in science classes, we always use farenheit. When you say 25° I think of winter because that's below freezing in farenheit.
Well we used to use fahrenheit before the country went metric; and we all changed and adjusted quickly. Americans are not stupid; they could change too. It is the political will, that's the problem. There would be resistance and fights no doubt!!!
The uk has a climate where temperatures don’t fluctuate much from winter to summer. -5 Celsius is freezing cold for them and 25 Celsius is scorching hot for them.
-5c is fine. 25c is hot.. but ultimately fine. 38-40c... thats more than enough lol
As a South African, whose summer temperature easilly reach 35C, i really could not understand how Europeans could becdying because of a mere 28C. Until I went to holland for a boat & bike tour. Humidity can really play a massive role in your body's ability to cool down, and in high humidity, 30C can easily feel like 40C.
The heat in the UK is different I feel. When I go on holiday in europe it gets way hotter than in the UK and I am fine. Whereas when the temperature gets to about 25 degrees in the UK its like a hot sticky heat like what you would get in the rainforest which makes it way worse I think.
It's because of the humidity that the UK gets. Every air mass, no matter if it originates in the continent, has to go over a body of water, which brings more humidity with it. The reason why it's worse with humidity is that you sweat less efficiently when there's more moisture as the sweat doesn't evaporate as well; that's why just talking temperature is technically wrong and should be accompanied by some humidity value as well (a wet bulb temperature).
SCL - Come to Houston, you have to deal with that all year around, and it’s worse.
eggrollsoup I can guarantee you it’s not. I’m from the U.K. and last summer I had to walk from lamppost to lamppost every 5 minutes to catch shade when it was only around 25 degrees. And this is coming from someone who has been to Thailand, a literal rainforest where temps were around 35 degrees.
@@eggrollsoup Dude you don't understand until you experience it,although it is not as hot the humidity makes you feel so sticky and horrible and that then doubles up by making you more dehydrated than you would normally be. I'm sur I could handle direct heat in Houston just fine, all I'll need is some sunscreen, but there is bugger all you can do about UK heat when it really gets hot
The worst thing is that the uk has no air conditioning so not only is outside warm and stuffy but inside buildings isn’t much better because of the lack of AC
I'm an Australian, and man the UK is a nightmare when it's hot outside. It really feels so different to our heat, a lot more oppressive. Foreigners always think Australia is deathly hot, and of course it is if you live in the outback, but where most of us live it's very temperate all year round. I was once in Paris and it got up to 42c, I honestly couldn't handle it. I kept having cold showers just to cool down.
But its the same in Australia when its 42 degrees. I've not lived with aircons and regularly have cold showers when it gets that hot. Much of inner melbourne and inner sydney are terrace homes... you learn to make spray bottles attached to tiny battery-operated handheld fans, and just spray yourself all day long... or you go to the beach :)
So according to you Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Darwin are all temperate climates in summer lmfao an average summer temperature above 30 degrees is not temperate, especially with high humidity in Brisbane and Darwin.
@but ton they don't work.
Yeah its just so humid here in England.
Yes it is all about the humidity, don't worry, North Queensland has it's own share of humidity, 42 degrees and high humidity is deathly. I remember when I used to live up there, we had two air conditioners on in the same room 24/7 and you could not spend more than thirty seconds out of that room without going sticky from the heat.
I’ve said this time again, I’m Welsh so grew up in perpetual rain, I’ve travelled all over the world and I’ll take 40c in the sinai desert or Florida any day over 32 back home, totally different beast
I’m Filipino born, but lived in Belgium all my life. When temperatures reach above 25°C, that’s too hot for me already, while 32°C in the humid hot Filipino climate is cool and normal haha😅
We brits have a built in system that allows us to cool off by moaning. Each time we moan during a heat wave we cool off! How do you think we colonised the world? Its also why theres the saying only mad dogs and english men go out in the mid day sun!
Mr Slinky dragon
That's okay but what about when we moan about the cold? Or the rain?
@@terryneale8663 moaning about the cold would just cool us off, so in winter we moan about foreigners... that makes our blood boil!
@@terryneale8663 its at that point we moan about the eastern Europeans stealing our jobs and going through the bins! Guaranteed to warm anyones cockles!
I love this comment section hahahaha
That’s why the Aussies call us “Whinging Poms” Yet I’ve found they Whinge or Complain more then us. Strange world.
British people:
Im freezing, why is the weather always so shit.
It's too hot, I hate the heat.
No one can say they're British unless they complain about the weather.
MaShaw literally me
It’s so foggy here what about you guys :/
SCOTTISH GUY Yeah well kinda. there is gonna be a bunch of snow in october atleast
I mean not everyone complains tbh and a lot of people seem to think it rains here a lot I mean it does rain a decent amount but srsly not as much as people say. Personally I don’t mind the cold or rain I just dislike the heat
Another reason why it’s so hot in the uk summer is because for example: the first heat wave we had this summer got up to 41 degrees for about a week and a half. The weeks leading up to that it was around 10/13 degrees. It was freezing! So to go from cold to Australia temps is a hell of a jump. Also cos it’s so wet all the time over here the humidity was unbearable
People from warmer countries saying “it’s not that bad“ YES it is! Places like the UK and other parts of Northern and Central Europe are not equipped for hot weather. Houses here are built to keep heat inside and cold outside, 96% of houses don’t have ACs. Plants and trees that are essential to our wildlife can’t survive in these conditions.
I know plenty of people from really warm climates who say it’s far more uncomfortable in the UK.