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| #HottestDayofTheYear: The internet reacts to the heatwave | #HottestDayofTheYear: The internet reacts to the heatwave |
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| Few things prompt people to flex their satirical muscles on social media like a heat wave, and as the mercury has hit its highest point in nine years #hottestdayoftheyear has started trending on Twitter. | Few things prompt people to flex their satirical muscles on social media like a heat wave, and as the mercury has hit its highest point in nine years #hottestdayoftheyear has started trending on Twitter. |
| Most parts of the UK are experiencing temperatures between 30C and 33C – meaning it is hotter than Barcelona and Athens. | Most parts of the UK are experiencing temperatures between 30C and 33C – meaning it is hotter than Barcelona and Athens. |
| As public transport and offices struggle to cope with the heat, workers are venting in the only way they know how: by posting witty tweets. | As public transport and offices struggle to cope with the heat, workers are venting in the only way they know how: by posting witty tweets. |
| Packed trains filled with sweating commuters were an easy target for many tweeters. | Packed trains filled with sweating commuters were an easy target for many tweeters. |
| So I took the Tube today and came across this: #hottestdayoftheyear #tube #tfl pic.twitter.com/EagQMMHkj7 | |
| Seriously hope some people on their commute today have a change of shirt. Phwoar, it's sweat-o- mania out here today #HottestDayOfTheYear | Seriously hope some people on their commute today have a change of shirt. Phwoar, it's sweat-o- mania out here today #HottestDayOfTheYear |
| Something something hot something something commute something something scorchio *bows* | Something something hot something something commute something something scorchio *bows* |
| Some leaped on #ThingsHotterThanToday to emphasise the heat by comparing it to infamously hot things... | |
| Hell. #ThingsColderThanToday pic.twitter.com/ZY850LdrE7 | Hell. #ThingsColderThanToday pic.twitter.com/ZY850LdrE7 |
| #ThingsColderThanToday hell | #ThingsColderThanToday hell |
| #ThingsColderThanToday lava that has been set on fire with jalapeños on top | #ThingsColderThanToday lava that has been set on fire with jalapeños on top |
| #ThingsColderThanToday my mixtape | #ThingsColderThanToday my mixtape |
| #ThingsColderThanToday Drogon's breath pic.twitter.com/hOZBtGAwod | #ThingsColderThanToday Drogon's breath pic.twitter.com/hOZBtGAwod |
| Middle Earth #thingscolderthantoday | Middle Earth #thingscolderthantoday |
| #ThingsColderThanToday The battery part of my laptop charger | #ThingsColderThanToday The battery part of my laptop charger |
| Others drew on art and pop culture including the Bayeux Tapestry, Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Wizard of Oz, Lord of the Rings and Total Recall. | |
| Walking outside today like #hottestdayoftheyear pic.twitter.com/YEoRkSBJhe | |
| I took a selfie on the Northern line this morning. #hottestdayoftheyear pic.twitter.com/S2hprDbqFC | |
| Now I know how the Wicked Witch of the West felt... #melting #heatwave | |
| Bugger me it's bloody hot!! #HeatWave #melting #Frodo pic.twitter.com/khQJc4EVw5 | |
| When you've just got off the tube. #TotalRecallReactions #hottestdayoftheyear pic.twitter.com/KG41rQB2Kl | |
| But Twitter users won't have ammo for long, as temperatures are set to drop on Thursday when thunderstorms are likely to hit, a Met Office spokesman told the Metro. | But Twitter users won't have ammo for long, as temperatures are set to drop on Thursday when thunderstorms are likely to hit, a Met Office spokesman told the Metro. |