Thursday, 13 July 2023

Stay There Cerberus

Cerberus is the three-headed dog who torments sinners in the third circle in Dante's Inferno and also the name given to the heatwave baking Europe at the moment where temperatures are 10C higher than the norm.
Sweltering under temperatures of 45C in Spain and with Health and essential travel only warnings published in Italy, France, Turkey and Greece, climate experts declared the World has just had its hottest week on record following the hottest ever June and the heatwave has the not so clammy hands of
climate change all over it.
A study revealed more than 61,000 people died in Europe last summer as a result of extreme heat and the MET Office has warned that in the UK we can expect more 'uncomfortably hot days' which is a very understated way of saying bloody hot and we can't even stay indoors to keep cool because British homes are designed to keep the heat in.  
The Government are looking at a program for new homes which will need to incorporate things like shutters on windows to block out the sun, better ventilation, ceiling fans and lighter coloured roofs.
It is with particular irony then that this Summer the UK finds itself on the Northern side of the Jet Stream which means the heat from Cerberus is kept on the Southern side of it so if it could just stay there until September it would be much appreciated.

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