It’s too darn hot

 I have a song in my head.

But when the temperature goes way up, Mister Pants for romance is not ‘cause it’s too darn hot.

If Cole Porter were writing songs now he’d have some interesting material. The conflict is stunning.

Schools should close. Schools should stay open.

Schools should leave windows open all night (DFE) insurance policies will be invalid if school windows aren’t locked. (Anyone with half a brain) 

People on antidepressants should take extra care. Teachers should work in hot rooms with a bank of non opening windows down one side and doors that have to remain shut so that the thirty children don’t escape. Of course teachers don’t need anti depressants. 

Teachers are lazy. Teachers are working extra hard

It was worse when we were at school. 1976!

They should drink water. Why can’t they have hot milk like we had?

Honestly!

I haven’t blogged in ages but guys, save your energy. It’s too darn hot! Everyone is doing their best. 

Everyone except AI, which is not helping at all and is probably the most culpable for the huge rise in June temperatures, especially the data centre Elon Musk built than he ran off methane generators.

I am lucky to live just outside the red alert area but people can’t read a map. 

I have printed the weather reports for 1882, 1976 and 1988 because for some bizarre reason I thought weather accuracy in my historical writing would be useful. I don’t know why, as there isn’t accuracy when people are talking about the current weather.

This morning I was working on some of my 1882 writing and I wondered what June 23rd weather was like then. I’d been up half the night with the dog, who had decided that that much lightning and a green sky meant that aliens were landing. Not just aliens but aliens who only ate dogs. This made me too lazy to get off my bum and get out the printed sheets for the weather, so I googled. It made sense as the sheets had come from the met office website. Since my blog where chat gpt had argued that Virginia Guiffre was alive and then tried to gaslight me it has been almost impossible to look anything up on the internet without a LLM getting involved. If you are looking for facts then you don’t want a device that takes everything that’s ever been said on the subject giving you the averaged out answer. My son showed me that if you add -ai at the end of every search it is possible to get better facts but this morning I forgot. It told me that the temperature on June 23rd 1882 in Maldon was a record breaking 32.3 degrees Celsius. I checked my printed sheets. Nope a high of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, equivalent to, an average for that year,  high of 15.5C.

Then my social media feeds went crazy. A school quite close to us had to close as it had been struck by lightning and you would have thought the teachers had been up all night personally throwing thunderbolts at the school the way some people reacted. 

Can we all agree that warm weather is nice but when it gets too darn hot people should try to be a bit nicer.