Across the UK, across continental North America, and around the world on the internet, by webcast

and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is the unexplained.

Well, by the time you hear this, with any luck, the heat wave that has been dogging the

United Kingdom and other parts of Europe may have abated somewhat, as they say.

But as I'm speaking these words today, recording this for you, have the temperature in London

is forecast to get up to about 41 degrees Celsius, which is something like 105.

Is it 106?

I need to do the conversion.

Kind of temperatures that we're just not used to here in London, and if you couple that

with the poor air quality in parts of London, then that becomes a pretty serious problem,

a V or pretty serious situation.

The advice that is being given is for people not to travel unless they have to in the worst

of it.

But I know the temperatures like this are a walk in the park in certain parts of Arizona,

and Dubai, in the Middle East, places like that.

But here in London we're not geared up for it.

So what we find when we get a protracted period of it, things begin to fail, and people

start to feel ill.

Now at this moment, I'm sitting here in my shorts at a T-shirt, and it is like doing

a recording in a sauna.

I'm using a different kind of microphone to do this.

For my technical friends, it is a vintage Senhizer 421 that I was able to pick up, and

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