No Wonder The Saucepans Are All Snowflakes....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48770248
So Paris closes schools because it's too hot, we often close them because a bit of snow fell. What is going on? I never missed a school day, ever, because of weather. Too hot? My April, they go to school every day in hotter places.

[david small]

I worked from 6am until 8pm 7 days a week for six months in the Persian Gulf. Temperatures often over 100 degrees. Also Arizona, mid July 110 120 not uncommon.

[Togo]

Wonder if Sweden is going to have a heatwave...….you know, a sort of house warming party.

[Togo]

Pfff. I worked down the mine where those temperatures were common....in the dark.....with dust as thick as, well you know who. Through an air lock and it would be freezing cold and water running through the roof. They never closed the mine or sent us home. I was 17.

[david small]

Togo, that nothing. I used to work at a steel foundry. I’d work 23 hours a day up to me neck in molton steel. We got three minutes for a cold lunch and quick change of nappy and it were heads down again. Those were the days. I still bare a scar on me elbow from when I nutted a funnel pourers flask.

[Cloverjo]

Lol at David small :))
I’d try to better that, but I can’t.

[vulcan42]

If the children are sent home because the temperature in a classroom is 104F , will they expect to be sent home from work when it's that temperature?
When I was in the RAF stationed in the middle of the Pacific it was that temperature every day and we had to work on aircraft. If you touched the plane in the wrong place at the wrong time of day you left skin behind.

[Cloverjo]

The difference is THEY ARE CHILDREN. (Caps for emphasis, not shouting)

[sherrardk]

Children being sent home by adults.

[Mamyalynne]

When exposed to such surroundings on a regular basis rather than a few days every few years (variable) you acclimatise.

I can't match the histories above, I only endured 3 short weeks of going up the mill chimbley before it was phased out.

Thereafter I had to sleep in the coal bunker as a deemed non contributor to the family purse.

[tonyav]

I’d work 23 hours a day up to me neck in molton steel.

Must have been on short time or it was one of those soft southern foundries. I was on 23 hours stoking three blast furnaces as an 11 year old apprentice and had to do half hour compulsory overtime.

[Peter Pedant]

// Did you mouth off like that at this school that never closed?//
BA for mama
mouf vat never closed more like

ere me ole chyne - no need to be like vat ! - foo !

[Peter Pedant]

// I’d work 23 hours a day up to me neck in molton steel.//

dats nuffin - I was shoved uppa chimneen when I was 11
damn I see that Mama has already worked that one
and it saves me from making leering and obscene references to corn on the cob being shoved up someone's well bo-jo

[Peter Pedant]

// If you touched the plane in the wrong place at the wrong time of day you left skin behind.//

yikes think if you tooled up with the wrong part of you !

I worked near Wadi Halfa in May - around 37 - 40 ' C
Cats pant above 37'C by the way - panting it was like they hadnt had sex for weeks !
and the day started at 06 00 and ended at midday.

[ToraToraTora]

tonyav 23:19, looxury!

[vulcan42]

The point is we've had these temperatures many times before but were never sent home early or had the school closed because of the heat , irrespective of who sanctioned it. I was digging foundations in my garden today for a new pond.Checking the thermometer it read 39.8, I guess that 0.2 makes a big difference in France.