UK heatwave shuts part of Leeds & Liverpool canal

[cparle87]

Metro I think

And we could fill it from other ones but would take a while to propagate

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Britain cut its forests down a long time ago to build ships. It's not a recent change.

And later to burn them to power the industrial revolution before they ran out and switched to coal.

[Northern Goblin]

We've had one day of rain here the last six weeks, and that was mostly an overnight venture.

Lot of natural rivers are running low, people in rurual areas are running out of water.

[Deleted]

you mean this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-44869566

All canals look the same to me

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And later to burn them to power the industrial revolution before they ran out and switched to coal.

Didn't know that. I thought we went from water wheels to coal fired steam boilers.

[Deleted]

We've had one day of rain here the last six weeks, and that was mostly an overnight venture.

Lot of natural rivers are running low, people in rurual areas are running out of water.

Our local reservoir dropped by 5ft

[cparle87]

All canals look the same to me

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Didn't know that. I thought we went from water wheels to coal fired steam boilers.

I remember reading an article about how by the turn of the 20th century England was almost out of forest, and there was a desperate attempt to save what little historic forestland the country had left.

[Sykol]

Daily average of 20°C. Highs of 30°C. "Heat wave."

[Deleted]

Daily average of 20°C. Highs of 30°C. "Heat wave."

In the UK yes /golfclap

[willtron]

It's not a heatwave at this point, it's just summer.

[Sykol]

In the UK yes /golfclap

God forbid you Brits get a tan.

[Deleted]

God forbid you Brits get a tan.

I don't get paid to educate so /out

[exochaft]

Cyclical weather is cyclical, our area has cycled between heatwaves/droughts and cool/rain since they started keeping records centuries ago, nothing out of the normal. If you want to cool off, you can come visit me, it's been locally dipping below 10C at night this week.

[Sykol]

I don't get paid to educate so /out

This isn't WoW, /emote doesn't do anything on these boards FYI.

I don't get paid to educate either, but here I am helping you out.

[Deleted]

Source? Also regardless we need rain to fill it

It was a different canal system, apologies for my mistake.

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Global Warming

Durham (cold, grim) exported wine to to rome as late as 1400ad.

[Shinra1]

Global warming is very real and this is the beginning.

[Hypasonic]

I went down to the leeds/liverpool canal last week when it was proper hot, was expecting it to be pretty low but looked normal, had a nice walk alongside it for a bit but its raining here today (Leeds) and its a lot cooler, thankfully.

[Deleted]

I remember reading an article about how by the turn of the 20th century England was almost out of forest, and there was a desperate attempt to save what little historic forestland the country had left.

We made a lot of boats in the 1500.

And I mean a lot.

Also, the civilised bits of Britain was basically small so in area not that much forest to build a shit ton of boats.

The dream of pirating dirty Spaniards gold or hitting the jackpot of a 50% survival rate on a hold stuffed with slaves made boats very popular.

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I went down to the leeds/liverpool canal last week when it was proper hot, was expecting it to be pretty low but looked normal, had a nice walk alongside it for a bit but its raining here today (Leeds) and its a lot cooler, thankfully.

It was you left the lock open.

Reported.

[Orby]

Don't worry our lovely winters will give us nothing but rain, including the usual floods :P

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Daily average of 20°C. Highs of 30°C. "Heat wave."

Heat in the UK is very different than America, As someone who came back from Florida 4 weeks ago, American heat is actually bearable to walk in. UK heat especially here in the south is so sticky and sweaty. I never sweated in America heat the way I do here, and I was out for 8 hours a day for 2 weeks in Florida, least I not forget Florida rained nearly every single night I was there. :P

[stevenho]

Heat in the UK is very different than America, As someone who came back from Florida 4 weeks ago, American heat is actually bearable to walk in.

Heat is heat and moisture is moisture, there is zero difference if both are at the same values in different parts of the globe.

[Ryme]

Daily average of 20°C. Highs of 30°C. "Heat wave."

Netflix will be calling with their comedy special deal shortly.

[AwkwardSquirtle]

I miss the rain. I'm not built to deal with proper summers. I have to prepare myself for going abroad in the summer, and I'm not doing that over here because the moment I do I know that we'll be back to normal. More cloud plz.