Bloody Hell it's Hot
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Right, I am getting seriously bored of this now. For the third day in a row my house was 29°C before 8 o'clock in the morning. And that's with good insulation and thorough airing. I am cranky from getting no sleep, and cranky from being shut up indoors all the time. All the places I can think of for cooling down (swimming pool, cinema...) all cost money.
I usually have a fairly high tolerance for heat but this is ridiculous. And it's only June. Sodding climate change.
I usually have a fairly high tolerance for heat but this is ridiculous. And it's only June. Sodding climate change.
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It's probably Hellish just to reveal that it's been a balmy 16-17° here the last few days and it's mist and cool this morning.
Ugh, I have some experience of that - I spent summer 2003 washing up in a commercial kitchen with temperatures outside hitting 37°C. I do not miss that one bit.
Here in Pacific Northwest (US) it will get to around 32 C today, but then start dropping through the weekend down to the 10Cs on Sunday with rain which we very much need. Several large fires in the area.
With our house we do have air conditioning, but it is set at 23C. We are fortunate to have a basement, so we can close up the house and just have the circulation fan on to keep it cool. The AC does not usually come on until late afternoon. But then just a few hours after that, the outside temp cools down enough so we can open up everything.
The only time we really need the AC is in August.
Looking at Pacific Ocean radar it shows a large typhoon off Japan that is turning into the Gulf of Alaska. Wonder if we will see remnants of that in a few days too.
I've brought two pairs of fresh socks to change into along the way.
A large tower fan awaits us when we get home. Plus two dog cooling mats. If they don't use them, we will!
Golly, are we grateful to have retired. My “office” gets sun from about 11am in the summer and Mrs Sioni used the South-facing conservatory. Not so bad for the last few years but this is demonstrably worse.
Getting in a walk in fridge or freezer under those circumstances was heavenly
Still 37° at 10:30 pm. Knackered but not going to get any sleep. Bugger this.
And you’re at the low point of the Parisian basin. London too is surrounded by hills so the clammy air gets trapped, and no one uses the deep tube lines unless they have to or don’t know better.
Being already exhausted and swollen-footed from the chemo, the heat just lays an extra level.
Getting old is no joke. Climate change is definitely no joke. Climate change sceptics? I’ve shot ‘em. At least in my head.
Mind you my solar panels are a bit of a compensation. Also, must look at air conditioning options ….
I'm now buying one for me.
Cheers! I like that idea. Less messy!
I have no idea why they were there, either.
It was bearable as long as I was doing more than 20kph to get a breeze.
In management speak, that’s a “Learning experience”.
No such luck. A text message from British Gas woke me around 1 am to tell me they’d received the report about the power cut sent an hour before (this was actually for the house where my daughter lives, over 100 miles away; the electricity account is in my name, and they send urgent text updates on everything to the account holder as she has epilepsy and is therefore on their vulnerable list). By the time I’d worked out that this really wasn’t something I needed to know, I was wide awake and needed to find wet towels and put the fan back on. Then I couldn’t decide whether the noise of the fan was keeping me awake, so turned it off and eventually went to sleep. Around 3am I had another urgent text telling me the power cut was fixed. Re-cooling process resumed. Around 4.45 the cats started saying it was light and not that hot and asking to go out (couldn’t do anything about it - one of them has just had surgery and has to stay in for a week).
I am not sure how I managed to avoid falling asleep at work today.
I have literally never been so hot in my life. I'd be willing to bet money it was at least 50° in there.
The concert is off. (Sunday's one has aircon, but the situtation still kind of sucks.)
I think a hyaena might be more realistic.
The dragons would breathe fire on them and roast them before consumption. If the attic survived it would be even hotter up there!
I know this week is exceptional but hot clammy weather isn’t unusual in Paris: why else does the city empty in August, so what kind of ecclesiastical architect designs a building with characteristics of the Other Place?
Bet it won a prize.
A gila monster should be able to manage a pigeon I think.
😂🤣
It was lovely walking in from the fires of hell to somewhere of a reasonable temperature.
And the humidity - this is what some people don't understand, that in the UK, the heat is always moist. I feel like a dehumidifier would create a vacuum.
Big chunks of the US are like this. The first time I felt it came as a shock. Our family was staying in an over-air conditioned motel in upstate New York, and every time we went outside it felt like walking into hot soup. I don't know how people bear it for months every year, even with air conditioning.
'The attic' is an episode from 'hoarders from hell' - loads of cardboard boxes too, for all the stuff to sell on ebay (no, wait, really, there is progress), so the dragon would be problematic. There is a bed perched in the eaves, which is at least biblical (Prov 21:9
You mean you've got a pre-built hoard and you're denying a dragon acccess to it? There ought to be a law against that.
(Oh, while I think of it - A Kenwood 901 food mixer for spares. This one is free, but I can't bring myself to take it to the WEEE skip!).
A big heat dome is due to track across the Midwestern and Eastern US this next week. Not sure of the details, but I am glad we have the Rockies blocking it in the Pacific NW.
The heat is definitely easing, but it will return so any cooling devices are going to be useful. We are considering a dehumidifier for our bedroom, as we find it difficult to slip into the arms of Morpheus.
Yep - Hot Soup feels right. Like we are currently on the 4th day of living in hot soup. And I can see that NY state would be similar (we visited a couple of years ago)
But I know that further south in Europe especially, the heat may be hotter, but is dry.