I’m hot and grumpy and everything aches. Roll on winter!
Ooh! Ooooh! Me me me! Me! I am dying of death!
At least when you’re cold you can pop another layer on, but when it’s too hot and you took all your clothes off, what’s next? Taking your skin off? Huh? I vote against.
but when it’s too hot and you took all your clothes off, what’s next?
https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/tronic-3-in-1-air-conditioner/p10050898
That’s not really effective and they’re sold out too. In spring I looked at a good one but didn’t buy it because I didn’t want to spend so much money. Now of course they’re all sold out. I hope I won’t be that stupid again next year.
Same here. When looking to buy one during colder weather you look at the price and think: “Nah, that heat wave won’t be so bad…” … and a few months later it IS that bad.
Here it isn’t only that bad, it’s way worse. Holy shit, I’m dying.
If you’re smart you’ll wait till off season when they go on sale and snag one up.
Haha, “next year” like this is the last of it. I like your positivity.
They become available again once it gets colder.
Nah nah nah we need to start with passive cooling first, where I’m from houses all have proper shutters that keep the heat out in the summer and the warmth in the winter. I just don’t understand why it’s not standard in the UK. Oh wait, that might have to do with your windows that open the wrong way round…
All I want is simple really, a 16° bedroom with a 10.5 tog duvet, all year long. What do you mean it’s not realistic???
Sold out 😒
a lukewarm shower. Possibly with a friend, to save water of course!
I’ll ask the cat if she wants to join the fun. She is not enjoying this weather either.
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Yeah, I’m like cereal.
Store in a cool dry place, away from direct sunlight.
Nah no winter. A very long autumn with mild temperatures please.
Winter kills the ticks though
Edit: oh wait this is a UK forum, please disregard if the UK is somehow blessedly free from America’s scourge of ticks
We have plenty of ticks thank you very much. My partner picks up ticks from walking the dogs about twice a week, I don’t seem to get them very rarely
They carry Lyme disease, and a small number encephalitis
You can always put on more clothes in cold weather. In hot weather, after a certain point, it becomes socially unacceptable to take off more clothes.
Also, bugs.
Personally, I prefer it to be hot. I don’t like not being able to escape the heat, but at least it’s light and there are flowers.
However, I don’t like it to be this hot.
I was in Corfu in August a couple of years back. It was 40 deg C which was just painful. But it’s currently worse here because it’s just so fucking humid.
20C is my preferred top end, anything after that and I start getting uncomfortable. 30C+ and I get increasingly irritable and headachey.
For me the heatwave has broken. I now have cool air blowing in the house. I just need the walls now to cool down and the inside temperature should return to normal-ish.
Yup. Inside is boiling, outside is scorching, and walking for too long anywhere has me dripping with sweat which feels gross AF.
At least in the winter I can put more clothes on. Hard to take clothes off when you’re already down to nothing.
I wouldn’t suggest walking around in the nude.
It’s a rare day I envy nudists. Today is one of them
Currently chillin with 5-10 degree weather here in Australia, but my god last summer was crazy. This summer I hope I survive lol.
Good luck to you in the UK, must be crazy hot in your brick, tripple glazed, zero air con houses
I find myself to be a bit of a contradiction with hot weather as I don’t do well in the heat at all and struggle when it gets over 25 but at the same time I love it as it means its nice enough to spend lots of time outside doing all sorts of things which I love and this is harder to do in winter. Plus I find all the layers I have to wear in winter annoying. Give me shorts and T-shirt any day.
But you can have shorts and a T-shirt already at 25, those extra 15 degrees just make it unbearable. (Greetings from a country where AC is basically Hitler)
It doesn’t have to hot. Just “warm enough that I can step outside in a light jacket”.
If it helps the nights began to get longer again on the 22nd of June, the day after the longest day of the year! That’s what keeps me going.
You’re right that does give me hope
Same. I used to like hot weather when I was under 30 but even in my 20s was starting to dislike it. I don’t mind a nice mild day but I could happily go through my life without every experiencing another day with temps over 25C. I still like 4 seasons, just don’t need the summer to be very hot. Maybe 3 seasons would do, autumn, winter & spring so long as there was enough daylight hours for growing gardens.
As someone who grew up in Florida - it gets a lot more bearable if you exercise outside when it is hot and drink a lot of water.
Since AC is ubiquitous where I grew up, I spent a lot of my youth completely de-conditioned to the heat, constantly moving from one air conditioned space to another, avoiding being outside whenever possible. But when I decided I was tired of being fat, and exercising would probably help with that, I started exercising outside a lot more. Often this meant playing ultimate frisbee in the middle of the day during school lunch breaks, or hiking all day on a backpacking trip in the swamp, or riding my bike around my university’s campus. I found that as long as I was consistently exposed to the heat and regularly did some amount of high intensity cardio in it, I was generally quite comfortable most of the time.
And of course, exercise in the heat means sweating a lot, which means you need to drink a lot of water.
Some of it is psychological. After all, when you are sucking air after sprinting around for 5 straight minutes for a point playing ultimate in the direct sun, relaxing in the shade feels quite comfortable - even if it is hot and humid. And you also get used to being sweaty - it stops feeling “gross” and weird, and is just how life is. Which makes sense, since humans literally evolved the ability to sweat a lot for the purpose of cooling down in hot conditions.
Some of it is physiological. Eg, your body will learn to sweat more to release more heat. And I would also expect increased capillary density near the skin, so the body is more able to move blood to the body’s surface and shed heat quicker. Also, after seeing Mexicans walk around in direct sun in 30° heat wearing sweatshirts and jackets because “it is chilly”, I have a hypothesis that heat-adapted bodies simply produce less heat (maybe via decreased Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis?).
There’s ‘hot’, and ‘way too hot’ but yes
Warm is nice, the 35c+ we had yesterday can fuck right off. Low to mid 20s is alright, comfortable beach weather.
