Welcome to Zero. I am Akshadrati. This week, how to beat the heat.

In 2022, the UK had a heat. In 2022, the UK had a heat wave like no other.

This was the kind of heat wave that shuts down airports and forces railways to stop.

Heat like this is rare in the UK.

And Bloomberg reporter Olivia Rudgard was here in London covering it.

I remember cycling home.

I stayed really late in the office and I cycled home

probably about half past eight or nine o'clock at night. You know, it felt like the sort of middle

of the day on a typical hot English summer's day. And I remember thinking, wow, this is something

that's really new. I grew up in India and I'm used to the heat.

But here in England, hot sunny days like this one tend to be quite unusual.

So while the dangers were real, the idea that an English summer day could be life-threatening,

that was just hard to fathom for so many people.

For obvious reasons, the cultural association of heat is holidays and ice cream and going to the beach and, yeah, wearing little shorts.

And there is something nice about leaving the house in the morning and thinking, oh, I know I'm not going to need a jacket.

There are very few English days that are like that.

And I think that is one of the big challenges for the authorities, like when they're trying

to say, OK, well, we're not trying to be a total killjoy here.

However, this is not a 25 degree sunny day.

You know, 40 degree heat is something that possibly people have never experienced before.

And if you're in that all day and you have no respite,

and especially if you have certain vulnerabilities, if you're older,

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