The Hottest Place in Britain, and the BBC Theme Park

[MagisterMalleus]

Richard Hammond rollercoaster: 15 seconds, 300mph, and six months in intensive care.

[marinepilotchris]

Fun fact, the ship at 1:49 is called the City of Westminster, and I used to be Captain of it!

[BatJeff]

"In 5 years i might be walking down here"

*laughs in 2020*

[courtney-ray]

From 5 years in the future: no theme park yet

[Shawn]

Seems appropriate that YouTube recommended this to me almost exactly 6 years later. Looks like there's still nothing yet.

[FruitLoops_]

"In 5 to 6 years time I might be walking down here on a nicely paved path"

*The project being delayed to 2025*

[hughseager]

Don't understand why people are comparing Australia to the UK. The UK is in Northern Europe so 38C is insanely hot for us. Australia is hotter, we get it!

[ToadRoach]

A mischievous way to combat global warming;
Move all the weather stations to cooler areas! 

[karl]

"6 years time, I might be walking down here" with a face mask, gloves and hand sanitiser.

[Gribbo]

I see lots of comments that 38°C is not so hot. Problem is the UK generally has high humidity with any heat so itoften feels really a fair bit hotter than 40°C+ commonly experienced in, say, Australia with a relative humidity of 20-30%.  I remember getting out of the  pool in Alice Springs when the temperature was in the high 30s and actually feeling chilly for a couple of minutes as the evaporation cooled me off. I actually live in the humid tropics where 35°C is unusually hot but fairly unbearable as the humidity is often 80% + . The other problem with Britain  is that it feels really hot because buildings aren't designed for heat ( few external window awnings for example) and, being in high latitudes, even the midday summer sun  tends to slant through south facing windows into poorly ventilated rooms. 

[jamesjfk]

I live in Swanscombe, the village, around a mile south of this weather station and cycle down that path every weekend, it's weird to think that Tom has been there. (There's still no theme park)

[alexknj]

By the time that theme park gets made, we'll have actual TARDIS technology to put in it.

[mediocrefunkybeat]

Living about a couple of miles from the site, I can assure you that Gravesend sometimes gets seriously hot in the summer.  I remember in the summer of 2003 when the record at that time was beaten walking along the promenade and rowing down the river.  That just about killed me.

[djhokage]

The YouTube algorithm was spot on with this one.

- This comment was written on the 15th of december 2020

[apfwilliams]

The Gravesend weather site has been decommissioned
According to met office weather studio live 8th Oct 2019

[roundel]

Pity Paramount have pulled out of this, but the theme park is allegedly still going ahead. Roll on 2023!

[mikeybraps]

0:19 38 degrees I wish it was that cool today in the UK

[BoyProdigyX]

In 2017, Paramount pulled out, and in 2022 the BBC and ITV followed suit. A month later, the application for the London Resort project was officially pulled, though with plans to reapply a year later. As of March 2023, it isn't looking good, as the company responsible, London Resort Company Holdings, is currently in administration (a form of bankruptcy in England).

[Ritaaw]

I’ve veen thinking about this issue too, in Finland a small airport inland in the middle of nowhere always has the hottest temperatures, it must be the asphalt getting got

[edwardhunt]

Highest recorded UK temperature was in Coningsby, Lincolnshire (believe it or not) last year, 2022, at 40.3C