On 14/07/13 10:17, yttiw wrote:
On 2013-07-14 07:58:34 +0000, Dawlish said:

On Sunday, July 14, 2013 7:38:38 AM UTC+1, Col wrote:
Dawlish wrote:
Hardly mysterious. It's a health warning, not a weather warning.



It's *both*, surely?

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Col



Bolton, Lancashire

160m asl

Snow videos:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

Separate on the MetO sites, Col. That's why it wasn't showing on the
old website's 5-day weather warnings. Use the new website would be the
best idea and get used to itwhether we like it or not (I don't, but
that's by-the-by) - the old one will be decommissioned soon.

Call me a cynic, but I am not quite sure why the elderly should be so at
risk from hot weather. Or is it just an excuse for interfering
busybodies to give yet another lecture on what people should or should
not be doing?

In my experience, old people have lived through many more hot summers
than youngsters, and in the case of my elderly relatives they have grown
to love this weather because they can sit inside with the back door open
and not be "in a draught", and they also save money by not having the
heating on.


But the elderly were much younger when they lived through those summers.
The same is true of cold winters, 1962 was over 50 years ago and the
elderly would have been in their 20's or 30's back then, that is one
reason why they coped with it.

Elderly people are more vulnerable to extremes in temperature, in either
direction, as their body is less efficient at regulating their internal
temperature. Whenever heatwaves or freezes occur you can guarantee the
excess deaths will come mostly from the elderly.