“Stay at Home” During Cold Snap, Public Told
The public has been urged to stay at home as a cold snap sweeps Britain in advice reminiscent of the Covid lockdowns. The Telegraph has more.
Snow fell across large parts of the country on Monday, causing hundreds of school closures and travel disruption.
Yellow warnings for snow and ice are in place across the whole of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England, with further warnings covering the east of England and the west of Wales as well as Devon and Cornwall.
The cold weather is expected to continue into Tuesday.
Temperatures are set to dip as low as –12°C (10°F) overnight, according to the Met Office, which said there was a chance that central and northern Scotland would be disrupted by snow until Tuesday evening.
Adam Stachura, Age Scotland’s Policy Director, urged people to stay at home where possible.
He said: “With such cold temperatures and icy conditions ahead, try and make sure you have enough food and any important medications at home to reduce the need for unnecessary and potentially risky trips.
“This is particularly important if you have mobility challenges or are unsteady on your feet.”
Classrooms across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were closed, while flights were cancelled and some train lines experienced disruption. …
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued an amber cold health alert that runs until Friday, with an early warning that adverse temperatures were likely to affect health and wellbeing in England.
Agostinho Sousa, the Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection at UKHSA, urged people to check in on vulnerable friends, family and neighbours.
He said: “The forecast temperatures can have a serious impact on the health of some people, leading to increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and chest infections, particularly for individuals over the age of 65 and those with pre-existing health conditions.”
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“Adam Stachura, Age Scotland’s Policy Director – armed with his / her degree in the bleeding obvious – urged people to stay at home where possible.”
It’s just so difficult to take people like this seriously.
At what point do they announce we’re heading into an Ice Age? Global Freezing!
Gosh! How did we use to manage before the outbreak of jobsworths?
Its January. Its cold and there’s been some snow. I’m in the middle of it in N Wales. Its much like many other years. 2017/8 for instance. I’m in my 74th year. My work tomorrow means I drive to some 500m forest. Nothing special. Stay at home ?
Agostinho Sousa, the Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection at UKHSA will have his work cut out attributing this ‘ extreme event’ to climate change much like his previous missives How climate change is making UK heatwaves more frequent, intense and long-lasting
Yeah ok. We went away in our campervan and enjoyed a beautiful walk around a frozen loch in the middle of a forest 👍
No…! How come you are still alive?
It’s beyond belief!!
Lucky you were not eaten by a hungry polar bear.
Did you remember to put on a jumper,coat, and hat and some socks and boots, or did you need the BBC and the Government to tell you? because obviously people would be going out in shorts and sandals otherwise.
What a joke. There’s nothing more bracing than being outdoors when the clean air of the north wind fills your lungs. Today I trudged across the park, watched the kids ( & their dogs) having fun on sleds down the steep hillside across the nearby playing fields. Shrieks and yells came across the snowscape, snow still falling.
My destination was the local supermarket, to pick up a few items. On the way back I found a couple of ten-year old lads mischievously catching me up, snowballs in hand. So as a pensioner, I took up the challenge, and we had a running “battle” all the way out of the park.
All good-natured, all fun, and the whole episode left my circulation system glowing and my whole body warm. So SCREW YOU “experts”, whose brief seems more and more to incapacitate and corral the British people.
Beautiful blue skies this morning
Our astroturf tennis court was white with a light dusting of snow but playable at 7 this morning, started with floodlights, finished with the sunrise
How did we ever survive…?
My wife was born in the winter of 1963, at home, in a house that only had a coal burning stove for heating and hot water.
Her bedroom didn’t have any heating until she was a teenager.
And yet… here she is.
We didn’t live in a house with central heating until I was ten years old. The first two houses had open coal fires.
I didn’t live in a house with central heating until my late 30s. And even then it was only the upstairs that had it.
Our shoe-box was heated by one stump of candle…
Luxury!
My parents moved to their first house in the winter of 1963. The only heating it had was an open fire in the living room and an immersion heater for hot water in the second bedroom. Single glazing, no insulation not even carpets on the floor. I was a pre-schooler and I remember how cold it was.
My late father, a Met policeman, cycled the 5 miles to his station and back, every day.
Amazingly, we all survived.
A few years ago various churches and public buildings opened warming hubs for people who couldn’t afford to heat their homes. If these are still operating are people meant to stay at home and be cold or go out and be warm?
The churches are struggling to stay warm this year. The cost of energy has gone sky high, and rather than looking after its congregations, the CofE’s upper management is more interested in extracting money from them to pay out to foreign populations whose ancestors were affected by slavery. On top of that, the Church is obsessed with net zero, so there’s no help for parishes looking to replace ageing and failing heating systems with something that’s effective and cheap to run. Instead they want them to pay through the nose for systems based on heat pumps that will never cope with the draughty old buildings in which they are to be installed. Look at what was reported from the Winchester diocese yesterday.
Stay safe and effective
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Good one! 🤣🤣🤣
No wonder the country is bust if we pay people to write this sort of tripe.
It’s a bit cold. It’s not the Apocalypse. Effing get over it, Stachura and Sousa!
“Agostinho Sousa, the Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection at UKHSA, urged…”
I assume this is one of those non-jobs which requires one day per month. More taxpayers money wasted.
Snow fell across large parts of the country on Monday, causing hundreds of school closures…
No.
The snow (or cold) did not cause the school closures. They were caused by policy decisions.
He said: “The forecast temperatures can have a serious impact on the health of some people, leading to increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and chest infections, particularly for individuals over the age of 65 and those with pre-existing health conditions.”
Hang on pal, I thought all these people were going to drop dead when the weather got a bit warm.
For elderly people it is best to stay indoors because with all the bills for entertaining immigrants there is no money left to grit the pavements.
The Met Office has issued a “risk to life” warning because cold is harmful for elderly people. Why didn’t they issue a similar warning when Starmer the Granny Harmer stopped winter fuel payments to millions of pensioners?
I started off the 1963 freeze by falling through ice into the local river (my friend laughed, and I had to walk two miles home by byways to avoid shame), and when the snow came, my diary recorded that we had the best snowball fight ever at school. Oh yes, and I took my 11+. Five foot snowdrifts eventually meant we couldn’t get to school and had to do tobogganing in the road.
To think I could have stayed in front of he electric fire at home and avoided all that danger.
Its pathetic, they are making the population weak and pathetic, as a child of the 60’s I can recall Winters which made these past few years cold spells look like a Summers day. Guess what – schools still remained open, they only closed when the heating broke down, work still happened and people still tried to get to it, oh and those things called gritters went out at night to cover the roads with Grit.
Like the Grit which seems to be a rarity on the roads these days, the Grit of the British people too is a rare thing, instead we have a weak nation of kidults, this created by an overmighty state.
Has this numpty got any advice for people who stay at home and run the risk of freezing to death because they can’t afford any heating?
When will they stop treating us as idiot infants and get out of our lives!
I suppose when groups of people stop jumping into stormy seas at freezing point and expecting not to be swept away… 🙁
“Yellow snow warning”? What’s that – don’t drink it?! 😂
I lived in the North East – well known for cold and snow – in my childhood. I do not recall my schools ever being closed in Winter. I do remember missing school a few times. On one occasion (1963) my village was cut-off for nearly a week. Other times the school bus couldn’t complete the journey and turned back, or the bus didn’t arrive.
Occasionally a few of us from outlying villages would be sent home early.
About quarter mile to get the bus, then 1.5 mile from bus stop to school in rain, hail, sleet or shine. Duffel coats, balaclavas, woollen gloves – seesential.
Home: heated in living room by coal fire – back-boiler for hot water. Bedrooms freezing, multiple layers of blankets and hot water bottles.
Agostinho Sousa, the Head of Extreme Events, (such a 1/4 of an inch of snow), and Health Protection at UKHSA,