It Ain't Half Hot Mum

[threegee]

(Subtitle: from the steaming jungles of Southern Italy)

The news about TUI cancelling all flights to Rhodes popped the thought into my head that you might like an update from the err.. coal face.

The news from the stylish heel of the boot that is Italy is ..oh, you guessed it... it's hot!  I suspect the real reason for this post is that we haven't been able to get a bloody-Samsung-Service (that's all one word here) person to fix both failed air conditioning units for the best part of a year. Always keen to accept bookings, but no one actually wants to do the leg work!  The local plumber (Mario Brothers personified) keeps contacting them in the city, but a phone call to promise an early attendance is as far as it ever gets.  Of course, we should have bought cheaper locally made stuff and thrown it away for new.  You can get "free installation" on even the cheapest of brands these days.  The extent of the problem is that the digital clock gismo in our bedroom (on the cool, north facing side of the house) was indicating a mere 35.5C when I entered it around midnight. That was with a large fan jammed in the window, expelling air for a prior several hours.  Here's the temperature graph from a north-east facing balcony that only gets a bit of morning sun, with the sun never getting nearer than three meters for the thermometer when it's this high:

I've thermometers on other aspects of the house, but it's not as easy to call up a graph without getting out of this seat.  I've seen measurements of 50C+ in the shade from the south side of the house in previous years.  We are still weeks away from the statistically hottest part of the year, too!

All this is perfect material for a media who really wants you to believe in "climate change".  Remember the difference between weather and climate:  climate is when it conveniently suits the agenda, and weather is when it inconveniently doesn't!  The sober truth is it's in no way out of line with what can be expected in these parts, and like everywhere else in this overpopulated world urban effect (mankind's propensity to concrete, tarmac, and glassify large areas) has a big hand in it.  I can cycle into town (amusingly, it's a city by local standards) in the evening and feel an astoundingly large difference in air temperature.  So the reports from Rome are easily understandable.  No Italian in their right mind heads to Rome in August.  The motorways are beyond capacity with residents getting out!

[threegee]

The brainwashing continues...

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Fires are common in Greece but hotter, drier and windy summers have brought more of them in recent years. Climate change means heatwaves will become more frequent, an advisor to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Saturday. On Rhodes, the evacuees, including residents from the villages, were housed at hotels, indoor stadiums, conference centers and school buildings, fire brigade spokesman Ioannis Artopoios told Skai radio. “They have been given food, water and medical help,”

-- Today's Telegraph

Seems to me, it's not medical help these folks need!  Anyway, I've just had a great idea: I've decided that I'm a major victim of climate change and that the exploitative capitalist western nations owe me two new air conditioners.  Yes, I've a claim against China too, but that one is never going to go anywhere.  UK treasury, please stand by for details of my gofundme account!

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

 when it gets to 22C I'ts too hot for me.

Fortunately the jet Stream has been looking after me for the past few days

[threegee]

Well, it's certainly not a Ryanair Jet-stream Eggy: unlike other airlines, they are refusing to put on rescue flights!  Who would have thought that beneficent Mick O'Leary would ever allow his customers to suffer?

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

2 hours ago, threegee said:

Well, it's certainly not a Ryanair Jet-stream Eggy: unlike other airlines, they are refusing to put on rescue flights!  Who would have thought that beneficent Mick O'Leary would ever allow his customers to suffer?

It is strange what Ryanair are doing compared with the other airlines. Could it be that they don't have any spare aircraft to send out and bring holiday makers home - or is it just all about money?

Ryanair operating 'full schedule' to wildfire-hit Greece as Europe heatwave fails to deter holidaymakers

Europe's largest airline by passenger numbers says it is watching the situation in Greece carefully while revealing a four-fold increase in first quarter profits.

James Sillars

Business reporter @SkyNewsBiz

Monday 24 July 2023 11:43, UK

 

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Ryanair: Still flying people in and out of Greek islands

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Why you can trust Sky News

Ryanair says it is operating a "full schedule" to wildfire-hit Greece including the island of Rhodes as evacuation flights get under way.

The company's chief financial officer also said, while revealing the airline's first quarter results, that there had been no surge of cancellations due to the record-setting heatwave hitting southern Europe more widely.

 

Neil Sorahan said Europe's largest carrier by passenger numbers had not deemed it necessary to put on additional flights to the Greek island of Rhodes at this time.

Britons wait for rescue flights in Rhodes - as second heatwave looming - live updates

He told Sky's Business Live with Ian King: "Airports remain open so we're continuing to fly in there.

 

 

"We've got a number of customers who are keen to come home, some people still want to do down there so we'll continue to fly in and out and as long as it's safe to do so and as long as the airports remain open, we'll be there.

"We haven't seen a huge amount of cancellations. We have seen a number of people looking to reaccommodate themselves onto earlier flights obviously out of the islands."

He saw no current need for additional evacuation flights as airlines and tour operators move to manage their schedules to best-serve their customers' needs.

Jet2, TUI and Correndon have all cancelled flights to Rhodes over the next few days.

Thomas Cook has cancelled some upcoming holidays and is offering other customers full refunds.

Ryanair rival, easyJet, has two repatriation flights due to leave Rhodes later on Monday.

Another is planned for Tuesday while Jet2 has also revealed plans for three additional flights from the island.

Mr Sorahan was speaking as authorities in Corfu began evacuations of tourists by sea.

Edited July 24, 2023 by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

[threegee]

"It is strange what Ryanair are doing compared with the other airlines. Could it be that they don't have any spare aircraft to send out and bring holiday makers home - or is it just all about money?"

The latter, for sure!

It's a completely unprincipled outfit run by a moron!  Other ex-pats here say they have no choice, but I've managed not to give him a bean over more than a decade.  I hate it when Mrs 3G flies with them, particularly when I have to drive her to the airport at some ungodly hour to meet their scheduling.  But she's quite canny and knows exactly how their rip-off charging system works, knows what days to fly, how long to book ahead, so plays the system for the cheapest possible seat.

Ryanair: I'd rather cycle it!

Steer clear of EU countries in any case, they have only ever been after our money, and will rip you off in an instant.  If you want that, and want to be treated like cattle, then good luck to you, but don't moan about it afterwards!

[threegee]

Today I can report it's no longer "climate change" but good old-fashioned weather.  It's a pleasant 27.5C in a strong wind from cooler climes.  In fact, it's probably a tad cool for summer.

There was one word missing from all the hysterical "climate change" reporting in the media.  That word - I learnt it at school, so it's even in the UK vocabulary - is Sirocco.  The Sirocco to be exact.  Why didn't any of the media reports use the word to properly inform their audiences?  Simple: it's a phenomenon that has been documented for thousands of years, and describes the hot winds from the Sahara Desert hitting the northern Mediterranean coastline.  The use of that word would be an implicit acknowledgment that what we experienced isn't remotely new, and would inconveniently clash with the agenda.

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

BBC weather report today :- 

Meditrranean

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/av/66316504

 

 

UK

Edited July 27, 2023 by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

[threegee]

Hey, I can answer the BBC's "Have we seen the end of the Mediterranean heatwave" question:

No, you haven't.  It's almost exactly three weeks from the statistically warmest days of the year - August is pretty much always a heatwave, and of course - give or take a bit - it will all be back again next year as per usual.  Any minute differences you think you'd like to ascribe to CO2 driven anthropomorphic climate change [careful choice of words there, as you can learn a lot from pseudo-scientific shysterism] are hidden in the statistical noise - just where the lucrative "climate change industry" likes them to be!

 

Fun fact:  Ask practically any retired and experienced metrologist for an honest opinion on the matter. They need to be retired so's they aren't in fear of their job, and decades of watching the weather instead of running incredibly dubious computer models helps enormously.  You'll need to reference quite a few before you find one that doesn't smile and tell you that we are all being conned.

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

Roll on August. At least I will have the football to enjoy and as don't have any pets i won't be  anthropomorphize .  

[Canny lass]

On 23/07/2023 at 13:57, threegee said:

he extent of the problem is that the digital clock gismo in our bedroom (on the cool, north facing side of the house) was indicating a mere 35.5C when I entered it around midnight. That was with a large fan jammed in the window, expelling air for a prior several hours.

 

On 23/07/2023 at 13:57, threegee said:

I've thermometers on other aspects of the house, but it's not as easy to call up a graph without getting out of this seat.  I've seen measurements of 50C+ in the shade from the south side of the house in previous years.  We are still weeks away from the statistically hottest part of the year, too!

Well, you're probably getting Sweden's share of the 'heatwave'! Coldest July I've ever experienced with temps between 9 and 17, and this is usually our hottest month! I've had to get the winter duvets out of storage.

Edited July 29, 2023 by Canny lass

[threegee]

Someone directed me to the dailysceptic.org website, where they are having a lot of fun "fact checking" the BBCs hysterical weather coverage:

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/07/27/feverish-bbc-reporting-on-european-heatwaves-debunked-by-actual-temperature-readings/

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...let us consider the plight of Justin Rowlatt, the BBC’s green activist-in-chief who was airlifted last week into heat-torn Alicante. On the southern Spanish frontline, he reported on July 18th that the heat has been “relentless” and continued day and night. It helps explain why these periods of extreme heat “can impose such a burden on people’s health”, he observed. Rising at 6:30am to do his first broadcast, he reported it was 27°C.

Alas, for our intrepid William Boot, it only briefly touched 33°C that day, and by the weekend the temperature in Alicante was struggling to stay in the 30s.

But for the BBC, it’s job well done. The mainstream media headlines screamed on cue about imminent Thermogeddon. Writing in the Daily Telegraph this Tuesday, Suzanne Moore said the “world is on fire – and we can’t ignore it any longer”. Arsonists took the opportunity to light fires on the Greek island of Rhodes, but to Moore, observing a hasty retreat by holiday makers, “this is what climate refugees look like”. BBC Dragon’s Den celeb Deborah Meaden noted that arson ”might” have been responsible, but then took the opportunity to widen the debate by claiming – without a shred of proof – “we are about to see the first countries abandoned due to rising sea levels”.

Most of the grass fires around here are started deliberately.  It keeps the weeds under control by consuming a lot of the seeds and removes much of the roadside litter.  I suspect that in Greece, there may also be an element of cleansing the tourists by some of the disaffected locals.