If you’re finding the heatwave intolerable, spare a thought for meteorologists who are currently in the trenches of social media arguing with climate change deniers.
The sceptics claim there’s nothing unusual about the current high temperatures affecting most of Wales and England. We have had heatwaves before, without shutting schools or offices, they say.
Who can forget the record-breaking summer of 1976, when harvests failed and taps ran dry? The British public somehow got through it without constant lectures about taking water bottles with them wherever we go, they argue.
But – sorry, sceptics – the current furnace conditions really are an unusually fierce heatwave.
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