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Fine weather
- Dave (17th Jul 2022 14:37:58)
This current warm spell is definitely giving the melts a field day of scaremongering on social media and the news. Don’t be scared, use common sense, drink lots, stay in the shade if you need to and remember, it’s only going to be for a few days. Most of all, live life and enjoy the sunshine, it’s England so it will soon be raining
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Re: Fine weather
- Mandy (17th Jul 2022 17:04:05)
Heatwave??? Where, it's not here? Quite cool today, I think we are missing the worse of it.
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Re: Fine weather
- ian (19th Jul 2022 13:00:07)
During the hot summer of 1983, Liphook hit the headlines as the hottest spot in the United Kingdom,
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Re: Fine weather
- Penny Williamson (19th Jul 2022 18:57:43)
During the Long Hot Summer of 1976 temperature was 35.9 degrees. This has now been topped by today's temperatures, but in 1976 the heatwave started in June and lasted for 2 months!
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Re: Fine weather
- Ian (19th Jul 2022 19:40:38)
@Penny - and we didn’t have air conditioned cars, offices and homes
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Re: Fine weather
- D (20th Jul 2022 18:43:59)
We also carried on going to school in 1976, but I think we were made of stronger stuff back then and the teachers were very dedicated to their profession.
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Re: Fine weather
- Penny Williamson (21st Jul 2022 09:43:12)
To be fair to schools and teachers I think the main reason why some schools closed on Monday and Tuesday was because we have a "compensation and blame culture now" Many people do not take responsibility for their own actions and are very quick to blame others/the system/organisations etc. I think there was a very real worry that if one of the pupils got sunstroke or even worse was hospitalised due to the high temperatures, the parents would probably blame the authorities and sued the school.
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Re: Fine weather
- passfield resident (21st Jul 2022 10:58:06)
I have sat in a classroom on a hot day in Liphook Junior School and I can tell you it would be impossible to concentrate or learn anything worthwhile with the temperature at nearly 40 degrees.
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Re: Fine weather
- D (21st Jul 2022 11:22:43)
I also have sat in a classroom at Liphook Junior School all day at a slightly lower temperature of 36°. We just got on with it.
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Re: Fine weather
- passfield resident (21st Jul 2022 12:44:02)
Did you learn anything?
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Re: Fine weather
- William (21st Jul 2022 13:23:02)
What a strange mentality. I thought as a human race we want to continuously improve and make things better for subsequent generations
Just because some people endured worse conditions in the past, doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to provide better conditions now. In fact surely having endured something worse, I would have expected we explicitly don't want that for our future generations.
To see how farcical this attitude is, imagine if the generation that endured the horrors of a global war were disappointed that the following generation only endured the horrors of the 1976 heatwave!
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Re: Fine weather
- Oldie (21st Jul 2022 13:38:45)
Of course we did school was school we didn’t no any different. And we went out to play no messing about. I remember school holidays running around all summer no shirt on shorts getting as brown as a berry those were the days. Later in life working in a workshop in 90 degrees lost a few pounds which was good for me.People today make to much of everything.
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Re: Fine weather
- D (21st Jul 2022 14:02:52)
My point is, William, that the excessive heat did not impede my education or learning. What I remember we all really enjoyed that hot summer at school. Nothing to do with previous generations suffering more than the current generation. Though whether the heat could have a detrimental effect on a teacher's ability to teach is another question.
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Re: Fine weather
- Penny Williamson (21st Jul 2022 16:12:22)
William if as you say we as the human race want to continuously improve and make things better for subsequent generations we are failing miserably. IMO children and young people were much happier in the "old" days before the internet and social media. We had much, much less but appreciated what we had much, much more. I know the clock cannot be turned back and we have to deal with life as it is, but there are two things we could do and they are take responsibility for our own actions and stop moaning.
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