We're Brits and It's Our Weather!

We Brits have always been obsessive about the weather, even if ours has generally tended to be pretty moderate affair. The media, however, has gone into overdrive in the midst of this current (predictable, given climate change) hot spell (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/19/uk-hottest-night-on-record-as-temperatures-predicted-to-hit-40c). The night of the 18th of July has been the 'hottest on record'. Nighttime temperatures failed to fall below 25 degrees Centigrade over much of Britain (it was almost 26 degrees in West Yorkshire!). The meteorologists are still predicting a record daytime temperature, over 40 degrees, today (19th July). This would make the UK 'hotter than Jamaica, the Maldives and Barbados'. Getting over 40 degrees is almost treated as an achievement. There is predictably much less focus on Southern France, Greece, Portugal and Spain, with their raging wildfires (and even hotter temperatures). We have always been a touch insular.