Is 33ºC enough to melt pavements and to set flowers on fire? (hottest, average)

[tarzan_taborda]

Trains cancelled due to heat as hottest day in FIVE YEARS hits UK | Mail Online

yes or no?

[EverBlack]

Melt pavements... I don't think so, but it depends on the material used for pavements.

Set flowers on fire: yes! There are a lot of fires caused by heat and droughts.

[chicagogeorge]

Typical UK over-sensational eye catching headlines. Apparently they use tarmac for roads in the UK which do not have a high heat threshold.

[patrix542]

melt pavement - most definitely, ive seen it happen a lot of times with even lower temps

[B87]

Parts of the M25 near here were built with concrete slabs, which are noisy and bumpy. Tarmac is much smoother and quieter.

Normal road surface
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.42...lfZJs4ynuw!2e0

Concrete road surface
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.35...4IcFQLfZmA!2e0

[irlinit]

Lol the Daily Fail is a terrible terrible 'newspaper'

Always over-sensationalizing. Every year the same thing happens a few times each summer. If the temperature is expected to be a few degrees above average, say even just 26C-28C and sunny for a few days.. then the Daily Mail will write a headline such as 'BRITAIN TO BASK IN SIZZLING HEATWAVE!'

It is so annoying.. we average 28 days above 78F/25C each year but they feel the need to make it out like some sort of heatwave when really it is cool in comparison to most other countries!

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There is a section of concrete on the M1 in Leeds and it's very rough and loud.

[wawa1992]

not at all. i've been in honda accords at that temperature

[West Phx Native]

it is only 91F, we don't get below that on some summer nights. When it gets to 46c, then you can talk.

[Bottletree]

Roads are not made to withstand heat there.