You know the UK is experiencing a heatwave when searches for “fans” blow past “onlyfans”
Unprecedentedly hot weather in the UK has left Brits wanting only fans... no, not that kind.
As temperatures have surged over the last week, marking the UK’s second-warmest June since 1884, per the Met Office, inhabitants usually accustomed to cloudy skies have found themselves searching for some cold air relief.
Google searches in the UK for “fan” peaked on June 21 and June 30, when temperatures in London exceeded 32°C (about 90°F) — far surpassing queries related to another, er, heat-centric service: OnlyFans, which usually racks up a similar volume of searches on UK Google.
Indeed, even searches for “air con” — a rarity in the UK, with only ~5% of homes having cooling systems, per CNN — have hit recent peaks in the last week.
