I CAN'T STAND IT THIS HOT!!! (this will be a short thread,timewise, no doubt)

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I CAN'T DO ANYTHING!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 July 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

i hear you clucking, big chicken

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

£% TOMORROW!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 July 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

(ahem)

35 TOMORROW!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 July 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's not hot enough.

― More Tongue Feldman (noodle vague), Monday, 17 July 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like routine summer weather here.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in LA for a few days and it's just thought-destroyingly hot right now. I can't take this shit. Somebody needs to cool this city down, for real.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

heat index of 40 here later today

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

ahh.

(air con office)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

Big big thunderstorms forecast for later in the week!

― C J (C J), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hating on nice weather makes me cry.

― More Tongue Feldman (noodle vague), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

"Opinionated weather forecasters telling me it's going to be a miserable day. Miserable to who? I quite like a bit of drizzle, so stick to the facts"
— Half Man Half Biscuit, A Country Practice

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

I wear t-shirts in the wintertime.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

Try being pregnant right now :(

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'd love to, really I would. But I think the Daily Mail would object to the necessary medical procedures.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

i have heat stroke, i think.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

The worst thing is, I love hot weather normally. Maybe going for a swim in the sea tonight will make me appreciate it again.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Classic: Making babies in June, so the lady is warm as toast through winter.

Dud: We did this both times, and now all our birthdays are in the same week (early march)

(It's not dud really)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

That's not a dud! You have a birthday season! We have one of those in my family, though it's a bit extended--all five of us are between my mom's birthday at the end of August, and my dad's at the beginning of November.

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

Growing up, my parents would put up a big 'Happy Birthday' banner in the kitchen in August and just leave it up for the next two and a half months.

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

Birthday season is right:

3rd, Alice
9th, Me, Dawn.
10th Amber
25th My sister.

Also, Dawn's best friend had a baby last year on Amber's birthday.

It's all go...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

My wife and I also share the same birthday (as each other).

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

i love it this hot. it could even be hotter.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

I hate it :( Makes me want to move to Sweden or something. I'm not suited for hot weather. It's the humidity that really sucks, I spent the summer in LA a couple of years ago and it was actually slightly more bearable than London. The fact that Californians have heard of air conditioning helps, of course.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

Tell you what, working in a room where 37 computers are whirring away in close proximity 24/7 doesn't help either.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

You know what's weird? The hot-weather sniffles. I've got 'em.

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

does anybody have an mp3 of "heatwave"? my email is red bull dozers at gmail dot com

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

nah that's not weird, isn't that when the temperature changes and all the bacteria that only really kick off when it's above a certain temp get moving? thought that was why everyone's always sick when the season changes.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

I have Shonen Knife's cover of it at home, Ken.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday, it was "Attack of the Flying Ants" day...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

it's been in my head all morning.

i am loving this hot summer btw, it's been amazing, i have never been going to parks and things this often ever. (i can appreciate that being in the office is a bit rubbish now if there's no air con) i wish i had taken some time off work though so I can just wander about, get out of the office and into the sunshine or something.

xxpost if i can have a copy that would be the most lovely!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm housesitting in West London and this flat is not air-conditioned but it is a lovely temperature due to the airflow/shade tree placement. Thirty-five degrees today REALLLY?

Only bad feeling about heatwaves: hot, dirty feet. Bleurgh.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

a couple of weeks of it being fine but just 23 celsius would be nice.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

35 is tomorrow.

As what's her face said on the telly this morning - "remember, that's in the shade, if you're in the sunshine it'll be warmer".

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

the best place to be is at work, as the long as the air-con works. might come in at 7am and leave at midnight.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

I hope this is a short thread. Right now Ottawa is hotter than MIAMI, allegedly, and today we're supposed to break a 40-year-old record. Aargh. I hate heat. I honestly start getting depressed as the summer solstice approaches.

― surfer_stone_rosa (surfer_stone_rosa), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

I hate the heat. I really hate it. But it was nice yesterday sitting in the sun.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

i am nearly dead, no air-con.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

I noticed over the weekend that CHARITY SHOP workers have to struggle along without air conditioning. Three cheers for charity shop workers.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

It is awful. I think I have some kind of reverse SAD - everything has been making me miserable since this heat started (no, no, not This Heat, gahhh).

If I could have a copy of Shonen Knife's version too then it might perk me up. *begx0rz*

― emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

Fans are the new rock'n'roll.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

I hate it :( Makes me want to move to Sweden or something.

No help, Sweden and Finland are suffering from the heatwave too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

its horrible! i need a drink its tooo hot

― Sugar Karis (Sugar Karis), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

I noticed over the weekend that CHARITY SHOP workers have to struggle along without air conditioning. Three cheers for charity shop workers.

Not just charity shop workers but anyone who works for a charity it seems (no air-con at Alix work).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in LA for a few days and it's just thought-destroyingly hot right now.

There's a reason I live nearish to the coast (sea breezes, y'see -- cue Roxy Music).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

I swear there used to be air con in my building, but no more, it seems.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

The air con here is working fine (for a change), but it lures me into a false sense of security that it's not too hot, but of course then I go and leave the building...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

37c/98f today here, and hotter as the week progresses. Humid as shit too, 66% right now. I've got to go out to the store too, no more putting it off. Although for five bucks I could have groceries delivered tomorrow....

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

pay it

― estela (estela), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

They said this morning that there would be NO SEA BREEZES today!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

No air con here...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday was horrible, 102F. We took the dogs to the lake/park as usual and although we got there around 8am it was already way too hot. I can't take direct sun/extended periods of being outside in the heat.

archel, I feel for you. I greatly fear ever being pregnant during a TX summer.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

it was 100-105F all weekend. i went into work yesterday, not a soul in the building except for me, and the air con was roarin' like a mothabitch. i had to sleep in front of my a/c unit last night.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

I hate the hot weather. I feel nauseous.As a child I'd always get massive headaches and would throw up.

Try being pregnant right now :(

:-( Poor thing. My mother was pregnant with me during the summer of 1973 which experienced a MAJOR heatwave.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

As I predicted earlier in the year, a really shitty cold overlong winter has meant we're getting a proper summer for once. It's been great - I really appreciate living right next to a very large expanse of grass right now :)

I don't feel the desire to leave London at all at the moment.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's time buses install air con. that's the only bit that's bad.

london would be perfect just now if it were by the seaside.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

The busses just need to get LARGER WINDOWS that actually open.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

oh don't get me wrong, I'm glad it's hot and sunny.

The year I was made redundant early summer, I thought "well, at least I'll get some sun" but there was no summer that year (2 years ago)...

Mm, could you turn it down just a little? That's lovely.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's time buses install air con. that's the only bit that's bad.

our busses are icy-cold. mmmm. it makes up for the long, boiling walks to the stops.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

a really shitty cold overlong winter

i don't remember it being that bad. and there was that week in January where it was about 18 degrees outside or seemed like it. we had the office windows open!

i want to know how the floor-side heaters on the left side of buses work i.e. do they run as long as the engine runs? the 48 was a horrific furnace yesterday.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

I love summer. Even on the worst dog-days I NEVER wish it was winter. Just take lots of showers, and if you can't, wet down as much of your body as you can. Head, back of neck, arms. It helps. Lowers your core temperature.
And hydrate constantly, otherwise, like Nathalie said upthread, nausea and headache.
I don't drink those sport-drink things. Full of sugar. I figure water is fine. You probably get enough sodium and potassium from your diet if you're eating enough fresh fruit. And summer=fresh fruit! PEACHES. This is the only time for them! They will cure you!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

OTM. drinking water, eating fruit, being happy. all you need.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

and swimming! omg.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

it's even nicer outside london, though, matt!

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

ugh. give me super strong air conditioning and a coke any day. actually, just give me winter.

ive been taking 3 or 4 cold showers a day lately (our air conditioning isnt working so great) and saying 'i need to lower my core temperature!' but i thought i made that up. those showers are rocking my world right now.

i do heart peaches, btw. pineapple is preferrable though.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

If I could have a copy of Shonen Knife's version too then it might perk me up. *begx0rz*

I'm worried now that I'm thinking of a completely different song to the rest of you.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

holy CRAP toronto is gross and hot... 35 already this morning... supposedly 44 today with the 'humidex'. that is crazy hot. oh joy.

my house has central a/c, but my roommate (the houseowner) is not turning it on, because he feels it is some sort of personal challenge that he can "make it all the way" to the end of summer without ever using it (he's worried about the cost moreso than the environment, but that too). i mean, i'm all for saving money and not blasting AC all the time, but COME ON. i'm sweatin' like a rapist in the place, so turn the damn thing on for chrissakes! it's coming on tonight one way or the other...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

When I'm landscaping and it's really hot, I love to do that classic thing—fill my hat with water and put it back on my head. Generally I've already hosed down my head, but the hat thing is, I don't know...my duty as part of the pastoral landscape?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

is it really 40C in NYC today and tomorrow? holy shiit

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Poor Anna. She must be melting.

But they have, like AC everywhere there.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, even the trains are air conditioned in NYC. GOD I MISS AIR CONDITIONING!!!

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

the AC is the main reason i came into work today, otherwise i was contemplating a day off...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

is it really 40C in NYC today and tomorrow? holy shiit

that's not all that out of the ordinary

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

bbc sez 29C in San Francisco today but between 24 and 26 tomorrow and Friday which is much more my bag.

Berlin is looking at 39C this weekend tho!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

that's not all that out of the ordinary

no i suppose not. hotter than Cairo and Calcutta tho.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

it would be out of the ordinary in SF

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Lima sounds pleasant this week.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

the air con on the new Southern trains totally rocks at least. made up for the horrible bus journeys yesterday.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think it might be a few summers since we hit 100, but we had multiple 90-degree days last (?) summer

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

summer sucks adult cockadoodles

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I LOVE Southern trains. I'm kind of annoyed that my journey only lasts six minutes every day before I have to enter the boiling concrete hell of work.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, I can't decide whether the lovely cool of swimming in the sea would be worth the accompanying torture of the shadeless beach this evening.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

but it'll be the evening! you won't need the shade surely

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Actually this morning has been cool and overcast, hurrah marine layer! There was even a bit of rain. Then again, we'll see how long this lasts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

i've been in the sea pretty much all weekend which was fab, i was only on the shadeless beach for a few minutes. take a big brolly?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, it's pretty hot right now. I caught a cold from living in A/C world over the weekend, and now I'm trying to get some humidity in my throat by having the windows open.

― def zep (calstars), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

It'll be about 6.30pm which is still bright sunlight and boiling hot at the moment ken!

Maybe brolly is the way to go.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

It seems like summer is really becoming less of a season and more just the way things are. Over the past few years it sounds like cities that don't normally see many 90F+ days are getting them (and suffering since they aren't prepared.) Here winter is becoming extinct (I only wore my coat once this winter.) and summer stretches exhaustingly from March through October. I tried to find some charts are something that showed the average temperatures over the past couple of decades to see if this true but I couldn't find any. Anyone know where something like that is?

I did find current yearly info for Austin-average of 111 days above 90°F (32°C) and 198 days above 80°F (27°C). That's almost the whole year! I would like to see if this differs from averages in the 1980s though.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

fuuuuck
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8302/chicagoad3.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

In the UK I expect people are already comparing this Summer to the 'scorcher' of '76 (I think it was that year). Perhaps it will surpass that even. At least we're thwarting that third Ice Age.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

why 3rd?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

38 degrees?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Fucking LA is 23 degrees this week. Not fair.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

You and your wacky Celsius.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

ts: celsius vs centigrade

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, lovely summer! Give me 100-110 degrees+ and long pants, huzzah!

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

i hate u

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Allah Frog, are you still in the tri-cities? Has this heat got to your brane yet?

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Seattle weather is always so miserable... NOT! (granted, things look a bit scary towards the end of the week, but still a picnic in comparison to the rest)

― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Still in the TCs indeed, for the moment, but I may be moving to LA springish. Heat has yet to cook my brain like an egg, but it did manage to burn my hands today, thanks to superheated metal.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

i passed one of those bank signs with the temperature the other day and it said it was 122 degrees!! my own thermometer said only 110, but it's in the shade...

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

okay
twin cities = mpls-stpaul
quad cities = something in iowa
tri-cities = ?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Masala DOsaNut, you are so so cruel! But keep those temps around for August, when I will actually be there to enjoy them.

AF, we should FAP after we both have moved away from this place, to revel in the nostalgia for heat/dust/radioactive and chemical waste.

tri-cities = richland, pasco, kennewick washington (location of the Hanford nuclear reservation).

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

thanks! is there a tri-cities minor or junior hockey team or something?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

The Americans

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, really I can't wait to get the hell out of here. Nothing to do with the summer weather though, which is a treat generally. Moreso the general boringness of the area, plus all the crazyass extreme Christians/Mormons. Where're you looking at moving to, Jaq?

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

35C in Bozeman, MT right now, at nearly 6pm.

(obvious) trick: spicy food and hot drinks will cool you right off. your body overcompensates, and you sweat like a motherfucker. then, go stand in front of a fan and feel the sweet, sweet evaporation.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

36 in Charlotte NC.

Damn, I should be getting curry tonight.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

35 C in nyc

but at least i'm not in charlotte!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

40C/104F in Dallas/Ft Worth.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

[xpost]
Hey we just had that Jehovah Witness convention here last weekend - did you not get the personal invite?

Get me back to Seattle.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

39C or so here, plus high winds and dust storm just blew through. Should be well over 40C by the weekend.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Why don't national chains adapt to regional weather patterns? I walked through the mall last week and shops are already starting to hawk winter/back-to-school clothes that no one could conceivably wear for four months. It's like that every year and I assume it has to hurt sales.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

but at least i'm not in charlotte!

OUCH!

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

The JW's no longer bother me, after the last two to come a calling ended up buried in the back yard. Thought about just moving to Seattle myself, but I get kind of crazy when it is overcast and gloomy too many days in a row.

Upside of loving such heat: When the rest of you have been burnt to cinders by global warming, I and my reptilian friends shall be princes of the earth, lazing on our rocky thrones and soaking up the sun's glorious rays.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

was 37 C today, but 41 C with humidity factor!
i did the spicy food for dinner thing and am sitting in front of a fan - it is working!! also: cold showers. would go swimming but am full of cayenne peppered salmon and mango and avocado. which is SUMMER FOOD GLORY WOW.

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

I am in total denial and am chanting "Canada is cooler! Canada is cooler!". Toronto weather, I am counting on you!

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit I'm splurging on curry BIG TIME.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

with mangos for dessert!

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

haha, factoring in the 35% humidity, the heat index today topped out at 114F/45.5C.

"If I owned Hell and Texas I would rent out Texas and live in Hell."

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

holy crap.

this part of canada is not cooler today, jaq :( and i doubt about for the rest of the week/month too... too bad you're not going to vancouver - it's pretty much perfect there right now.

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

denver has cooled off to a balmy 83F with scattered showers.

it gets really hot here for like 3 weeks in the summer, but most of the time its 80-85F. which is bearable. and no humidity, which is really what makes heat fucking awful.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

oh that's really bad with no humidity mandee!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

heat w/ no humidity is GREAT. it's more of an endurance test than an annoyance. humidity just makes me lose it.

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

MY HAIR IS ALL FRIZZY

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

dear trader joe's string beans prik king: you're a godsend tonight.

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

*yawns* So the high reached 95-plus F (35-plus C) degrees. So what? WELCOME TO SUMMER. Summer is supposed to be stifling hot with blinding sunshine and nary a cloud to protect you. Actually, what I really wanted to say is "welcome to my world and the reason why I'm so grumpy throughout summer". Oh, and air conditioning doesn't solve everything, particularly when you live in a split level and/or when your car's been out in the sun so long that the a/c system doesn't begin to be effective until you're nearly at your destination. I've given up on fighting the heat, anyway. You just have to accept it, get used to stewing in it, and hope that winter will make up for it all.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

screw you, buddy

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

another solution: INNER-TUBING, BITCHES.

I've been out on the Jefferson River, floating in the sun and drinking beerz with pals basically every fucking weekend for the last three weeks. Plus: big cliff AND bridge to jump off!!

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

Humidex at 44 degrees today. Four days ago I was in perfect Vancouver. AARGHH.

― surfer_stone_rosa (surfer_stone_rosa), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

I miss my high school job working in a frozen food aisle / freezer on days like this.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

do you miss having to listen to jose féliciano's version of 'light my fire'? bastard

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

screw you, buddy

What a charmer you are.

another solution: INNER-TUBING, BITCHES.

This is a wise answer, though it only works on days when you're not at, um, work. Though could you imagine how office life could be improved if summertime meetings could be held while inner-tubing?

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

You know - I don't want to see ANY of the people I have meetings with wet and/or in bathing suits. Ever.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

I am in school!

also: CURRYTIME, MOTHERFUCKA

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

This is almost Houston hot. Where da barbecue at?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

You know - I don't want to see ANY of the people I have meetings with wet and/or in bathing suits. Ever.

Aw. You don't have even the slightest bit of a morbid curiosity?

I am in school!

... though it only works on days when you're not at, um, ~~work~~school. Though could you imagine how ~~office~~class life could be improved if summertime ~~meetings~~lectures could be held while inner-tubing?

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

To beat the heat today, I am wearing off-white linen trousers. For the first time in public. I feel like I should be playing golf, on a cruise ship, with my grandfather.

― gooblar (gooblar), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Or at Motherboy

http://moyer.privatjokr.com/mixologists/motherboy.jpg

― gooblar (gooblar), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

The radio this morning was full of "YOU'RE GONNA BURN, BITCHES! HOTTEST DAY EVAH!" but all I can see out the window is clouds.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

38c yesterday, in london apparently. is this really true? didnt feel more than 35

― -- (688), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

The office is just intolerable today. Because our fan doesn't rotate, someone decided it should be "on each person for an hour" - which is funny because I've been here 3 hours now and it ain't been nowhere near me!

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

fucking hell it's hot!!!

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost
dude, does three degrees make that much difference? once it's over 30 degrees, you melt.
people who like the heat/summer are just PHR34KS. the worst are the ones who buy CHOCOLATE in this heat. hahahahahaha they walk around for hours with the pralines thinking the cool bags will help. but yeah seriously, i just don't enjoy the heat. gimme the autumn and winter, it fits my gloomy mood.

i'm off to drink 5467867867 gallons of water to get rid of my blasting headache.

which is funny because I've been here 3 hours now and it ain't been nowhere near me!

they figure you're a *cool* rocker chick. ;-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

nauseating

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

I have the fan on me now, and it's not even helping at all.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

same here, it sounds like a cool ww2 bomber plane tho.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

I know, my fan is just blowing hot air. There is no cool air left in the entire county.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

i just had some chocolate. i blame it on the heat.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

i am sitting by window. am perfectly cool.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Is this hotter than that mental summer of 2003? It doesn't quite feel like it yet. Although I had to get out of the sun and into the shade at lunchtime, which isn't something that usually happens to me. Admittedly I'm not usually wearing a suit in this weather either.

I've had a fan on my desk blowing in my face all day. It's been a bit of a godsend.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

So grateful right now for my fully air-conditioned, hermetically sealed hi-rise office building. HEL-LO, CORPORATE OVERLORDS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

i can't seem to upload pictures. OBV DUE TO THE HEAT.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

"If I owned Hell and Texas I would rent out Texas and live in Hell."

Milo, who said this?

Yesterday I was waiting for the bus on a bench in the shade and the breeze felt like it was coming out of an oven. Breeze begone! Also. you know it's bad when you are relived to step out of your car b/c it's cooler. the a/cs just can't keep up.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh I am having the exact same problem with my car's a/c.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

I took my Year 10 students who were melting in the heat to work in an air-conditioned computer room this morning. After half an hour they were complaining it was too cold*. You can't win sometimes.

*It is very sophisticated 21st century aircon with two settings - "On" and "Off".

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I found myself doing housework at 1am as it was the only time that it felt bearable to be moving about. I made the mistake of opening the windows at night and found myself chasing huge moths round the house. Does citronella work on them? I tried burning lavender oil but it didn't seem to have any effect.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

You must have a hole in one of your window screens. Wad a piece of duct tape on it.

The price of gas has me keeping the AC off and opening the windows. I don't really like all that wind and noise, but most of my driving is short hops. I can stand it.

I'm going to haul many bags of pine-bark mini-nuggets up a steep hill today, and the perverse thing is that I'm looking forward to it. Donkey work! I'll get started as soon as I can tear myself away from ILE.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

People in Scotland don't normally have window screens, do they?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

We don't have window screens in the UK.

Air conditioning is struggling to keep up today. Still feels hot in the office. I really can't stand this heat!!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently dried lemon peel is good for deterring moths.

I am quite fond of the moths compared to the other bugs that have invaded in this heat - flying ants and big red spiders.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

How about those adjustable screens that fit various width windows? In the event of freak invasions of annoying moths.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Murths?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Insects and bugs I have evicted nicely from our living room, yesterday:

Wasp
Bee
Dragonfly
Tiger Moth
Moth (other)
another dragonfly

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

We just have a million house spiders. If we got rid of them we'd probably be buried in whatever smaller bugs they're subsisting on, or so I justify my casual vacuuming.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

We don't have window screens in the UK.

Well this would explain the moth problem. Get some!

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I mailordered some screens for our living room windows, but that was to keep the cats from getting OUT. It does help a bit with moths, but they get in anyway through the kitchen window, which isn't suitable for screens (opens outwards). That's all we get really, moths and occasionally wasps or daddy long legs.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

another charity without air conditioning here, it's actually too hot for me. i must admit that i was surprised that big departments stores (selfridges and debenhams) don't have it either, and are just too hot to shop in!

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Our old office had air conditioning that our office manager insisted on having on ALL YEAR ROUND. Brilliant for the three days it was actually hot enough to warrant it, horrible the rest of the time.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'll try the dried lemon peel. I've got tilt and turn windows so screens would be no good even if the tiny scottish summer justified getting them. I remember seeing curtains made out of fine chains that were supposed to deter insects, they look pretty cool as well.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Man I am totally moving to the UK and opening a window screens store.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

okay first it was archel with her hand-crank washer now I hear about "tilt and turn windows" and "curtains made of chains". wtf?!?

the uk be leaving me perplexed today.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Ha we brits like to suffer.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know what a window screen is! Can you still see out? I need to see out of my windows.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

We're getting a break here today - only 33 C predicted for the high. The sun was intense on my walk to work, but the breeze was cool. Supposed to hit 41 C on Friday though, and stick there for several days. This is our typical summer weather, and I chose to move here, so I shouldn't complain, but it is such a relief when it's over.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

our heatwaves don't usually last that long and the Summer is cooler generally so window screens would be un-necessary most of the time i guess.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever, you people are all nuts. Even when it's not a HEATWAVE OH NOES you might still want to open your windows for a little air and not have the entire local population of insects circling your bedside reading lamp!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Window screens are for buggies! You can see out of them, they are basically just metal mesh in a frame that goes on the outside of the window, so you can open your window and get the breeze but not the bugs. That and A/C are pretty much the only reasons the southern US is habitable.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

But all our years of temperate climate means we are not going to do very well in the End Times, I suspect.

xpost

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

screens don't have much to do with heat. they're to keep bugs from flying in (or pets/small children from getting out, i suppose).

xxxpost

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

ah but because it is not usually hot there are usually no bugs either.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

exactly

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

All this UK problematic and screenless windows talk is explaining maybe why my UK-born mother-in-law refuses to open their house windows over here. Let in the cool cool breeze! Air out that nasty stale smoke! This is why the god of architects gave us windows! And screens? They keep the bugs out, whatever the season. We have our windows open the 3 seasons of the year the A/C doesn't run. (xposts)

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Tomorrow is set to be the hottest day on record in Scotland - 35˚C. There are wee beetles coming up through the cracks in my floorboards to celebrate.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

the only bug problem i'm having so far is the 50 or so fruitflies that have amassed in my kitchen regardless of whether or not the window is open (and the kitchen is small and relatively clean).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Archie, screens look kind of like this, from the outside:

http://www.crystalclearwindows.com/windowscreens/window%20screen1.jpg

From the inside you can see through them perfectly -- some kinds of screen are silvery metallic (woven of fine wire) and some are woven of nylon thread or something and look vaguely black, but at most they cause a slight blurring or color shift to your outside view. The weave is fine enough that from more than a few feet back, you don't even notice.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

ah but because it is not usually hot there are usually no bugs either.
-- Archel (slightlyfoxe...), July 18th, 2006 10:32 AM. (Archel) (later) (link)

Seriously? I am envious. Hotter-than-normal winter + mysterious hole somewhere in my house = house is being taken over by very large beetles. :(

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

And what's this nonsense about only heatwaves bringing bugs? Are there not moths and other flying things between spring thaw and winter frost?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

the only bug problem i'm having so far is the 50 or so fruitflies that have amassed in my kitchen regardless of whether or not the window is open (and the kitchen is small and relatively clean).

Same here. :-((((

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, I just like my sash windows that open up a giant expanse of air without anything in its way.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

not really - at least not a significant amount here at least. (xpost x2)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

been in my first floor flat (in a 3 storey house) since October last year but I didn't really notice any moths at all until the other day. it's a pretty old house but perhaps the height gives us an advantage. we do have at least 1x mouse though.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

we got sticky paper for our fruit flies. now we have a giant column of dead flies. yum!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Stevem - all fruitflies need is a bit of water to go on and on and on. Spray some bleach water around to do them in.

Seattle is similar in that there just aren't that many flying bugs about normally. The seabreezes or something blows them all inland.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, no moths. BEES?? What about stinging things: wasps, hornets, bees? Or ladybugs (or those false Japanese beetles here that just LOOK like ladybugs and then hatch throughout your house in late winter)? Or flying ants? Srsly, you don't have a mosquito problem??

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

How awesome is it that our office building A/C is broken on the hottest day of the year?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe brits haven't heard of screens.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome if they are sending you home with pay.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Stevem - all fruitflies need is a bit of water to go on and on and on. Spray some bleach water around to do them in.

we've been candle-burning some eucalyptus but your solution sounds a bit more economical thanks.

Laurel, in London at least bugs are really not a problem 3/4 of the year unless you live in a festering hellish recess (which many do actually given London rent rates, but still).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome if they are sending you home with pay.

Ergo, not very awesome.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

We don't get wasps or bees except in summer (and they don't tend to come in the house). Don't get mosquitos in urban areas much.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

We have vicious kamikaze moths who dive-bomb you when you're reading in bed. Also moths who crawl on the tv screen, interfering with my viewing pleasure. My husband doesn't seem to mind them, so it's my job to punish them with DEATH.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

I hate -- HATE -- the sound of chitinous exoskeletons and wing cases and antennaed little bodies being flung against light bulbs and lampshades and making those horrible flicking sounds. Not to mention the swooping shadows they cast. ERRREUUUEGHG. SCREENS, PLEASE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

First Half of 2006 Is Warmest on Record

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

liking london on the seemingly-no-bugs-whatsoever front. althought it seems abnormal and slightly scary. what is it that keeps the bugs down and what is it doing to you?

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I always just assumed it was the coolish climate which inhibits breeding.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

How awesome is it that our office building A/C is broken on the hottest day of the year?
-- Jesus Dan (djperr...), July 18th, 2006 10:44 AM. (Dan Perry) (later) (link)

Bummer, that happened to me last summer (I was working at Target, too). :/ Are they at least trying to fix it?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost

thanks julia! that was the kind of info I was looking for yesterday.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Are they at least trying to fix it?

Yeah. I'm sure it will be all set once 4:45 rolls around.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

liking london on the seemingly-no-bugs-whatsoever front. althought it seems abnormal and slightly scary. what is it that keeps the bugs down and what is it doing to you?

We have a mild, wet climate with only a couple of months for the bugs to enjoy themselves, and sometimes it does get a nuisance - for example, there is one day every July when the flying ants swarm and that can be quite unpleasant! But we don't have many big bugs beyond moths, we don't have a lot of mosquitoes - insects in general are vastly less common over here, that's all there really is to it.

Once when I was in Italy, reading in bed with the ceiling light on, I put the book down, looked up and the ceiling was BLACK with mosquitoes. Holy fuck.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

First Half of 2006 Is Warmest on Record

In what parallel universe?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I hear appalling things about Florence in the summertime. If I ever go, I'll pack my own mosquito netting.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

In the parallel universe of AMERICA.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I am sad that the UKers never had the pleasure as kids of tracing rain drops along window screens and forming little boxy patterns.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have a window screen in my bedroom, but that's my landlord's fault and I've been too lazy to call him about it.

Meanwhile, I am overjoyed that it is only 82F today. Last night we had to call off band practice after an hour and a half, because we practice in a house where all the windows are boarded up so that noise doesn't escape. It was pretty miserable, obv.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Another charity worker with a hellish hot office. Tomorrow I am "scheduling" "meetings" rather than melt into my chair for another day. My car was like a little mobile sauna on wheels on the way home.

The radio this morning was full of "YOU'RE GONNA BURN, BITCHES! HOTTEST DAY EVAH!" but all I can see out the window is clouds.

Onimo, it may be cloudy, but it is also warm and sticky and you can get burned through clouds (as I found out on Sunday).

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

We had one summer when there were loads of mozzies around, we ended up buying a mozzie net for the bed. But we've hardly had to use it since, I think it's because they started dredging the pond in the park at the back of the house every winter, so there weren't as many dormant eggs or whatever.

Scotland has a bad midge problem. On the face of it not as bad as mozzies, but in reality much worse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_%28insect%29

Up until now this summer I've been moaning about the aircon at work, because if you dress for the tube and outside then you freeze all day in the office - I've got a pair of tights in my drawer to put on when I get in, but I will complain no more, it's heaven...

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

It'll be the day of the flying ants soon. It's too hot for them to get jiggy at the mo.

I have been sitting in 33 degree heat all day. Hopefully, it'll rain soon.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Glasgow Fair weekend meant Friday and Monday off work. Friday and Saturday I lay in bed with a kidney infection, Sunday I went to Ikea, Monday I got a blister on my thumb putting up a curtain rail. Tonight I am working late on a mailmerge of 3200 letters to Malaysia. I LOVE THIS WEATHER but I hate my circumstances :(

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

We had a flying ant day last week i think, but I didn't see as many as expected. Maybe it was a false start.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Walthamstow Flying Ant Day was about a week ago.

I lived in Pisa just by the river and there were mosquitoes everywhere nearly all year round. They were absolute bastards - really cunning. They would wait until you turned around and then try to silently float down onto you, but if you saw them hovered back up out of reach. After a while I started to develop a sixth sense: constantly looking for tiny shifting shadows out of the corner of my eye (the downside of this is that when I got back to England I looked like a jumpy paranoid madman living in fear of shadow monsters). I had to use some dodgy chemical electric-vapour thing called 'Vape' every night, but it wasn't much use in the summer because it was still 25C at night and really humid so you had to leave the windows open.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Onimo, it may be cloudy, but it is also warm and sticky and you can get burned through clouds (as I found out on Sunday).

Agreed, but it still didn't live up to the pre-burn hype. It was a hot day but nothing like the BARBECUE IN HELL we were promised.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I am amused by jel's use of 'jiggy'.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

BARBECUE IN HELL day is tomorrow, btw, Onimo. Fancy an outdoor pint?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

From a friend who lives in Fresno (all temperatures Fahrenheit):

---

Date: Jul 18, 2006 10:40 AM
Subject: It's official...
Body: Today
Jul 18 Partly Cloudy
102°/72° 20%
102°F

Wed
Jul 19 Partly Cloudy
103°/71° 20%
103°F

Thu
Jul 20 Partly Cloudy
104°/73° 20%
104°F

Fri
Jul 21 Mostly Sunny
103°/75° 20%
103°F

Sat
Jul 22 Partly Cloudy
107°/74° 20%
107°F

Sun
Jul 23 Mostly Sunny
106°/74° 20%
106°F

Mon
Jul 24 Mostly Sunny
105°/72° 0%
105°F

Tue
Jul 25 Mostly Sunny
103°/71° 0%
103°F

Wed
Jul 26 Sunny
102°/70° 0%
102°F

Thu
Jul 27 Sunny
101°/68° 0%
101°F

I live in HELL!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

The thing I really can’t stand about the heat at the moment is when I’ve just got out of the shower in the mornings, and my drippy hair starts somehow making my forehead and the back of my neck sweat. I get really overheated in the morning, which makes me hurry to get out of the house. I am surprisingly early every day for work when its really hot outside!

Anyway what’s really annoying me is how its not THAT hot outside, but its still boiling in my apartment. My kitty must be dying.

Also I am shocked and appalled at no screens in the UK. We have screens here but we probably don’t need ‘em. We don’t have bugs, either. BUT I do have a pair of KILLER SQUIRRELS who like to prance across my windowsill. If it weren’t for screen, they could DASH inside and give me rabies.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Poor Anna. She must be melting.

I am. I am covered in factor 50+ and (please no) our office air con is being a little unreliable. Still, it's a joy to discover that NYC has air conditioned subways and I do conceede the grid system makes naviagtion easier. Just don't get me on to the "Is Dizzy Rascal hip hop?" conversation. (If you're reading this Matos...)

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

>> BUT I do have a pair of KILLER SQUIRRELS who like to prance across my windowsill. If it weren’t for screen, they could DASH inside and give me rabies.

Ah well, see there's no rabies in the UK thanks to our overzealous quarantine system. That's why we don't have screens!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5762/100cy7.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Argh - 100. Due to irritating circumstances, I had to walk to find some lunch today. Nothing close sounded good (Arbys, greasy Chinese, Thai place I eat at once a week anyway, competing Thai place), so SINCE IT'S COOLER TODAY I walked one unshaded blistering mile to our town's single sushi purveyor (also a sub shop). Stupid to forget you have to walk BACK. And, while it's cooler than yesterday, it's still 97 F!!!

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

I moved a woodpile and hauled 22 bags of bark mulch today, drinking hot coffee all the while.
I think hot weather energizes me. I must move to Fiji.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I .... you know .... WALKED. In the sun. And stuff.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

Beth, you are a strange, strange person. I think Fiji would be too cold for you -- perhaps try Ecuador or Libya. And Jaq? Walking is plenty of physical exertion.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

The heat broke today after a real classic thunder storm. I'm actually thinking of putting on a sweater.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

It is 89 degrees right now

It is 10:30 at night

FUCK
THIS
SHIT

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

You got me by 2 degrees. I'm not wearing very much, and I'd be wearing less if it weren't for sticking to the chair.

I thought there was a bird dying from the heat in my back yard today...turned out it was just a fledgling waiting for mama to come show it how to drink from a birdbath.

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Air conditioned subways... I had forgotten... aaaaahhhhh (however the stations aren't, bah).

If you think the grid system's easy, Anna, wait until you try the Queens "Grid" system. Mwah hah hah.

Today the fans have been reshuffled so that all of them move, but all they're doing is moving hot air around. I wish they'd turn off the lights and open the windows.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm dormant eggs.

I have never seen a dragonfly in a house.

Quite pleasant in my office, for once.

I worry about going out for lunch though.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

We had a flying ant day last week i think, but I didn't see as many as expected. Maybe it was a false start.

kilburn flying ant day was last wednesday. i don't really mind them... they're just ants.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

I've been having problems with the open window/room full of moths at night conundrum for the last few days. Not noticed any mosquitos but then again I generally don't as they're not a problem for me. My housemate is bitten to buggery though.

Blackheath Flying Ant Day was last week, although strangely they hadn't actually started flying. I was all set to start the Defend The Indefensible: Flying Ants thread when they all mysteriously vanished as suddenly as they appeared. Why does this happen?

Are we all looking forward to the hottest day ever in London today?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

People, get ordering...
www.texascoolvest.com

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

update: i am still loving the heatwave. (and thanks FP for toon!)

i don't mind the bugs that fly into my house.. we're kind of friends.

will window screens keep out burglars? that's what i worry the most when i have my window wide open.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Do all NY trains have air con now? I got on at least one older train (maybe the L) that didn't the first time I visited.

Are we all looking forward to the hottest day ever in London today?

Have to spend most of it in the nice cool office so...er, yes

Supposedly going to the cinema later as well although that could turn out to be folly if they don't have AC in there.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

cinema last night had loverly AC, if they didn't have that i think i would've walked out.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

i was late(r) for work this morning due to pausing to watch the dragonfly on ravenscourt park pond, can't imagine them inside given that they are probably the biggest insects we have here in the uk. am kinda jealous. maybe more jealous of the obvious size of mark's living room than the fact he has dragonflies in it 8)

hammersmith flying ant day was last week, yes. gloucestershire's was sunday given my mum's complaining when she phoned.

that adjustable screen is only adjustable in one direction.

> but all they're doing is moving hot air around

if fans aren't blowing ON you and allowing your sweating body to do what it is meant to do then the fans are pointless, yes.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Scotland has a bad midge problem...
-- Vicky (vicky...) (webmail), Yesterday 3:25 PM. (later) (link)

http://www.najtvolk.art.pl/muzyka/prezentacje/ultravox/img/ultravox-midge_ure-wokal.jpg
"I havenae lived there for Years!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

yes, the cinema is the answer! my mom and i went last night and it was so cool i had to put on my jumper! lovely lovely. (and cheap tickets to overpriced leicester sq theatre on lastminute.com)

even sainsbury's frozen aisle isn't very cold today, it's weird. usually i can't spend more than a few minutes there but it only seemed a little cooler.

i've somehow missed this flying ant day thing, since i have no idea what it is.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

the lobby of this office, the bit where the fewest peoplehours people spend, seems to be the coldest bit of the whole building. it is quite retarded.

although it's nice to walk in from the outside and suddenly cool right down, like some kind of decompression airlock, but for heat

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

actually it's nothing like decompression airlock is it?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

i've somehow missed this flying ant day thing, since i have no idea what it is.

They're sort of horrendous large ants with wings, that swarm everywhere for about 24 hours, maybe a bit more, every summer, then mysteriously disappear. They kind of get everywhere. Millions of them invaded Scotland a couple of years ago. I like how people were urged "not to panic".

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

my office is not really a/c'd. we have these a/c unit things with big pipes that we stick out of the windows. it's ok really, it's the bus that's the kicker.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Took the kids to their open-air school pool. Pool had a top layer of dead flying ants. Lovely.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

A big red admiral butterfly came in my window and got stuck yesterday! There's yer british insect that's bigger than a moth and stupid enough to fly indoors and not find its way out again.

Today I'm supposed to be carting stuff to the recycling tip, which is a really clever idea when I feel sweaty and horrible just from shifting in my seat.

― permanent revolution (cis), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

The weather has broken our cool (as in temperature-wise, it is distinctly uncool otherwise) canteen which means I have to venture out to forage for lunch.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

actually it's nothing like decompression airlock is it?
-- ken c (pykachu10...), Today 8:27 PM. (later)

do you also have trouble understanding the 2nd law of thermodynamics?

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dragonflies and daddy long-legs get inside houses in Minnesota in the summer, no problem. The mosquitoes open the door and let them in.

Clerkenwell did not have Flying Ant Day either, Colette. Also haha your folks are here, awesome.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just going outside. I may be some time.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

NY subways most definitely have A/C and the L trains have actually (all?) been converted to the newer stock, so it was likely that particular car's system that had conked out.

I have been told that TfL has a standing cash prize offer to anyone who can figure out how to install A/C units in the trains themselves without making the ceiling unfeasibly low, is this true?? Cause if so we should just start a thread about it and we'd probably have an answer in no time

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

apparently it can get up to 55 degrees celcius in a dark coloured car! W!T!F!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I hope our van is silver or white...

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

"They" recorded temperatures of 52C on buses yesterday. This does not surprise me as I am dripping wet by the time I get home, ick.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

it is gross, coming home. i hear differing commentary on where it's best to sit. 'out of direct sunlight' would seem to be the best bet.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

we're keeping the baby in the fridge. just kidding, but yeah we're def not going for a walk with her now!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, those outrageous bus temps take into account sitting on the sunny side. The shady side is slightly cooler. Only slightly, mind you.

I know that TfL *had* a contest to design air conditioning for the tube, because I've seen some of the entries and there were some delightfully wacky ones.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Right at the back up the top is good if you can get a seat there/put up with annoying schoolkids. The air seems to circulate more back there from all the open windows. At least it did this morning.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

my husband has a slight sunburn after he was out waiting for the bus FOR ONLY FIVE MINUTES. poor thing. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm now reduced to opening the freezer and just standing in front of it, a la that Simpsons episode where they get the pool.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

just don't eat chicken of the sea.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

i hate bein in the office at lunch :(((

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

The bigger problem is getting the heat out of the tunnels.

Kate, your car will have A/C

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but I'm not using that while it's at rest i.e. while I'm sleeping in it!

But hopefully we will get there early enough to park under the tree.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Earlier on I thought, this isn't as hot as Bartzelona, but I can't really remember. It's certainly not all that hot now. Quite pleasant, in fact. I may change my mind when I walk to Paddington later on.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

remember to park it under the side of the tree that will be in shade in the morning, rather than where the shade is in the evening (I invariably forget this and get roasted out of the tent).

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

The bigger problem is getting the heat out of the tunnels.

Is this some lewd remark or has my brain just melted?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

the a/c takes the heat out of the train. but then you have to get it out of the tunnels.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear I just started to fall asleep while having lunch. Feels like someone has replaced my brain with a cooked tomato.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I remember I was pregnant last year in the summer as well. DIdn't seem to bother me all that much. Maybe I was just deliriously happy being pregnant or I have decided to forget how crap it was having morning sickness during the summer. hah

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to go and live in a refrigerator.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, NYC subway platforms are really direly hot - and then you step into the train and the sweat freezes to your face - ACHOO

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh I am pretty sure no matter HOW many showers I take at this point I will never stop feeling sweaty and disgusting.

The Hynes Convention Center T station in Boston is the hottest place in New England, if we are talking about unbearable public transportation.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

I reckon I would be feeling nearly as hot and sleepy if I wasn't pregnant anyway. But it's a better excuse for flaking out at work.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

flying-ant day sounds awful.

A lot of busses lately have had the a/c conked out due to overworking. And bus windows don't open here.

argh, this morning, standing at the bus stop dripping at 7am, I've decided I'm going to stop thinking about how awful the heat as. It's not going anywhere and I have no desire to move. Love the burn!

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

i've been getting up at 6am every day to walk to here:

http://www.stanford.edu/~lekheng/picture18.html

way too hot to even think about moving out of the shade between about 9am and 8pm, though.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

asshole. make me jealous, will ya!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

i saw a few flying ants last wednesday in holborn/cov gdn/ilx central. i can't believe i've got a meeting with quite shouty/hyper head of (a different) dept. i'm not sure if i'll still be able to communicate by then...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Wow Toby - that look amazing.

The heat defeated me again at lunchtime :/

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think the storm is on its way; it's very windy here.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

yeah we're getting gusty here too, it's not cooling anything down though.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

the car will have WINDOWS ffs. using a/c in a car in the uk is fucking indefensible.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, it uses less petrol on a highway to use the AC than opening windows because windows open at high speeds creates drag which makes the car far less efficient.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Where are these places where it's turning windy? Hardly a breath of air here in Oxford right now.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, there was another thread where we discussed the threshold of when having the A/C on become more efficient than having the windows open - it was about 50mph I think.

I've been stuck in enough traffic jams in the UK in the summer to know that A/C can make a MASSIVE difference at times. If you're near stationary on a hot day the windows being open does nothing but let more sun through.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Manchester CJ.

yeah we're getting gusty here too, it's not cooling anything down though

Ditto, it's like someone's just turned on a giant hairdryer

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Three more days of this here, 101/102/100 predicted, and then it's supposed to break, thank god.

hahaha oh shit, I just checked the humidity -- 78%.

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm liking my office right now, we have no A/C but we have a shady space between our building and the next and this appears to be generating its own stiff breeze, as a courtyard house would.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

CRAZY thunderstorm last night. Almost continual lightning. And we lost power, right in the middle of a Deadwood dvd. My car windows were open, but I wasn't about to go out in all that lightning to close them! Eeek!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

whatfuckingevs, we do not need a/c in the uk in a car. if you're stationary in traffic you probably shouldn't be in a car.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Therfore, we do not need cars in the UK.

Well, I agree with that, or at least I ought to be able to.

Farmers excepted.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

complaining abt a/c in cars is like complaining abt fred west's bad table manners

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

OK, Emsk, that's it. We're kicking you out of the van, and you're walking to Truck.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

if you're stationary in traffic you probably shouldn't be in a car.

I'm not sure I understand this.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

It's supposed to hit 104 here on Friday and 108 on the weekend - no relief forecast until late the next week. Poor Mr. Jaq is delivering the mail in this while I am heading off to Canada (where it WILL BE COOLER!). This is the weekend for the big hydroplane races on the Columbia, so there will be lots of heat-prostrated people littering the shores.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk is going to ride her bicycle all the way to Truck, balancing her tent and her box of wine on her back. Coz, like, you should never use cars, ever.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

31% chance of a thunderstorm tonght, London!

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say.

I was stationary in traffic a few times yesterday. But I was on a tour round a couple of branch offices; it wouldn't have been doable either by public transport (no service) or on a bike (120 mile round trip).

I had the aircon on all the way, too. But most of the time I was travelling at 70mph, so used less fuel running the aircon than if the windows had been open. Plus, as Ed pointed out, if you're going at low speed then having the windows open doesn't make any difference.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Dawn and Amber are doing the "Race for Life" tonight.

Hope it cools down to a reasonable degree before 19:30 tonight...!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

there's an ice cream truck outside. too hot to risk it, i think.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

If you're gonna have heating in a car you might as well allow it to blow out cool air as well. that said i would rather have the windows open anyway.

nothing is worse than getting into a car with all it's windows closed on a day like today.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

surely the point of being in a car is to get there quicker? so if you're stationary WHAT IS THE POINT?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

HEY YOU FEEBLE PEDESTRIANS ASKED FOR TRAFFIC LIGHTS, NOT US.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

The cafe at my work has window screens! I have walked through the doors many times, but only today, with this thread in my mind, did I notice. Thank you, ILX, for opening my eyes to the world around me.

emsk, the point of being in a car is to get there at all, which makes cars great if you don't have the luxury of living in a city with 24/7 transport.

I put the cold blowers on in my car today and they blew out warm air. That's how hot it was.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

The point of being in a car is to get to places you can't get to by other means.

Besides which, as I said, yesterday I drove for about 120 miles, mostly at 70mph. I spent about 10 minutes stationary in traffic, in total. Does that 10 minutes mean I shouldn't have taken the car?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

(This is where I say once again how glad I am for the marine layer.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

I think the point is that there should be better transport (with a/c).

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Who lays marines?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Rick Wakeman lays marines? Makes sense I guess.

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Who lays marines?

You'd be surprised.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Racey Lacey

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Google 'hot marines' and amuse yourself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

it's 33 degrees centigrade inside my office. that's fucked, right?

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone know if the IMAX cinema at Waterloo is airconned? I'm going there this evening...

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Heatwave breaks July Record. After a respite this weekend there's a real possibility it could get even hotter next week.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I seen hotter.

― Will (will), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I just went for a bike ride round the canals & reservors in the Lea Valley. Tottenham Marshes are actually on fire.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

BLOOD FLAVOURED ICE LOLLIES!!!!

For animals, natch.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

This is unbearable! 34 degrees in brussels according to yahoo. I nearly fainted at the bus stop.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Slushy juleps help a lot.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Some nice clouds bubbling up, and the breeze is getting up. Strangely, I'm finding warm humid weather easier to cope with than dry heat.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I find myself checking the 5 day forecast far too much! They keep on changing it about every 3 hours!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml

I'll be gald when the Dog Days are over.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, yeah. Everyone else in my dept has gone home, so I've got BOTH fans trained fully on me. This is the nicest I've felt all week.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I hate fans. I hate white noise of any kind. I'm too high-strung. I would rather be sweltering. This obstinacy of mine causes a lot of, well, you can imagine, in my marriage.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

You'd go nuts in my house. The central air sounds like a jet engine.

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

Christ, I can't sleep without white noise.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

it was 27 degrees outside at 10.30 last night, and it was 22 degrees at 6am this morning. I hope it rains today, it's completely cloudy at the minute, which means if it doesn't rain it's going to be insufferably muggy. I was on public transport for 3 hours yesterday getting back from Henley, without air-con, it was pretty horrible.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

It's 6.30am, and it's cool and grey outside.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

Henly must have been nice though.

Walking to the station was very hot - I had some Lucozade half way! - and the train was just horrible. It was too uncomfortable to sit still, but of course there was no choice but to sit still, on the horrible, sticky, manky seats.

It was noticeably cooler in Maidenhead. Then again, it was an hour later.

Seems much nicer today.

If it does get even hotter next week, I am going to have a hissy fit.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 20 July 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

This is unbearable! 34 degrees in brussels according to yahoo. I nearly fainted at the bus stop.

Same in Bruges. My parents in law said it was 37 in the shadow!!!! WTF! That probably means 4584787 in the sunshine.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 20 July 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

could be worse...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0257

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 20 July 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

Here in West London there's a really good airflow built into this place so it is possible to sit in the living room drinking ice water and it's OK. Have horrible gnat/midge bites on wrist and elbow and possibly EYELID (the left wrist bite is especially pleasant).

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

ok, it's forecasting a record high three days in a row, but their record high of 45 degrees is only 3 degrees more than the average high temp for July which is 43 degrees. And I'd imagine another three degrees when you're used to living with temps that high doesn't make that much of a difference....

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 20 July 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

it's slightly menacingly grey in glasgow today; the forecast is for "thundery showers". i've been loving this hot weather, which is most unlike me: normally i moan about it being too warm. perhaps it's because our office air-conditioning has ACTUALLY BEEN WORKING for once.

so. off to work. without an umbrella, because it got nicked. fuck thundery showers :(

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 July 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

great storm at 4:35 this morning over manchester (uk).

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 20 July 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

thank god for this cloud cover looming over head, and its cool today. i missed all the storms last night. fuck knows how because it was so hot in my bedroom i just don't remember sleeping at all.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

My little part of north east Edinburgh seemed to have its own weird microclimate yesterday, the haar off the forth cleared for about half an hour at lunchtime but apart from then it was foggy and really quite chilly. When i went to visit my mum in the evening the sun seemed to come out when i got past Leith and it was pretty balmy but nowhere near the 34 degrees that was forecast.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 20 July 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

i took a thermometer out of work yesterday and stuck it with blutack to a phone box over the road. it was 43! in liverpool! at 5.50pm! (although, thinking about it the heat accumulated by said phone box over the course of the day may have skewed the result slightly?)

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

er, yes, just a bit :)

the max temp recorded yesterday was 36.FC (97.7F). this was in wisley, surrey, and is a NEW BRITISH RECORD.

prestwick was the hottest place in scotland, at 31.1C.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Not quite, it was the record JULY temperature. The real record was in August 2003: 38.5C.

http://www.met-office.gov.uk/climate/uk/extremes/index.html

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

curses, yes, you're absolutely right.

38.5C ... holy shit!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I've just bought one of these http://i8.ebayimg.com/03/i/07/b8/0c/36_1.JPG

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, it's so cold in Australia.

I'm gonna put on me jacket.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ is a GE Money Genie (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's 29 degrees today. It's alright!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

The a/c is struggling in our office - it's 28C in the body of the room and 35C below the desks of the authors (where their emulating workstations are pumping out the heat).

Walking through Green Park yesterday evening in the full glare of the sun was strangely invigorating; walking up Gipsy Hill was even better.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

i had a similar sense of invigoration when i went out for lunch yesterday. something about the skin's sudden exposure to the intense heat.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

It's all clammy and pre-stormish here. The birds have gone quiet. The sky is gonna bust open. Tropical Storm what's-her-name coming tonight.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

i hope to god it pisses down on me on my walk to the pub tonight, please to refresh me this way.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

It isn't as bad today but I think I've caught the sun a bit, just spent an hour and a half standing outside a pub in Golden Sq so asking for it really. Still, at least this afternoon will go by fast!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I know what you guys upthread mean about the invigoration. Tuesday I voluntarily moved a big pile of rotten firewood. I'm terracing a hillside and am always looking for junk to shore up the ledge I've created. I also carried 22 bags of pinebark up the hill and dumped it on the edge. I'm fine as long as I have water. And a hat.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

i have stopped complaining about the 'pointless' air con for the moment.

have been in 44 degree heat before, Palm Desert, CA (and that was a month or two before the yearly peak). felt just like is does when you open the oven door to take out pizza but without the possibility of closing said oven door to make it stop.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

But inside the oven it is gas mark six!

What is today's temperature in gas marks - the only temperature scale I understand?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

The lowest gas mark is still about 140 degrees C so today's temperature would not even be on the scale.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

The hottest I've been in was 112 degrees in the Mojave desert in June 2003, but I was only actually outside in it for 5 mins at a time so it was more a curiosity than anything else.

Peej, today's temperature in gas marks is gas mark 0 because you don't actually need to turn the over to accomplish room temperature.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I have been in something around 110 degrees before, in the Sierra Nevada in high summer. It was actually OK, being very dry heat, but there was also a warm desert wind blowing, which made it feel slightly unreal. It was more like standing in front of a hot-air vent rather than being outside in warm weather, and it was bearable (though my tendency to turn pink after three minutes in an average Scottish summer meant I went and hid in the shade anyway). It's mugginess and humidity I can't stand.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

BAH. not a good choice of days to have a work teambuilding awayday that consists of walking along the canals/future olympic site (ie industrial wasteland that is all concrete with no shade) in hackney and bow and stuff.

i'm still too fucking hot. yuck. at least they agreed to my suggestion to stop at tesco to buy ice lollies.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Now 31C in the office. Can't think straight.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

bloody hell. we were at 29 the other week when the air-con was knacked and it was absolutely hellish; like walking into an oven. you have my savage sympathies.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

It's been around 29-35 degrees in my workplace all week. Though, at least there was a breeze today.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Unison says:

There is no maximum temperature, however there are guidelines to which employers may or may not subscribe. The TUC is requesting a maximum workplace temperature of 27-30 degrees C.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, our thermometer is showing 29 but that's as high as it goes! And it was off the scale yesterday. This is what happens when you have 37 PCs + no air con in a smallish space I guess.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

That British summer of '76:

The temperature reached 80°F (26.7°C) every day between 22 June and 16 July. The truly remarkable heat wave was in late June and early July. For 15 consecutive days from 23 June to 7 July inclusive, temperatures reached 90°F (32.2°C) somewhere in England on each of these 15 days. Furthermore, five days saw temperatures exceed 95°F (35°C).

We've got a long way to go to beat that. Furthermore, I am no longer eight years old, so it won't seem like an Everlasting Summer anyway.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

if you guys just had a/c it would be so much easier. That summer of 76' sounds like an average April or September here!

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Even though the forecast hasn't been revised downward, we had a brief storm last night and it's actually pleasant today! Only 84 degrees right now. Yesterday at this time it was probably 94.

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE DOING FINE THANKS FOR ASKING!
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/2006-07-20-st-louis-storms_x.htm

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

we got our power back at 3 am THANK GOD.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

100 degrees in a rain storm, wow. I like the occasional summer storm we get here in So Cal just because it's different, but that must be hellish.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 20 July 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes, this is not even funny now. This is the third night in a row I will NOT BE SLEEPING WHATSOEVER. I am tired and VERY VERY CRANKY

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 20 July 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Try taking a warm shower (or coolish, but definitely not cold) right before you get into bed, but don't dry off, let the water evaporate to cool you down as you fall asleep. Or, wet and wring out a sheet then layer it on top of the sheet that covers you - that way it can cool you down as it evaporates dry but you don't get soaked. Have a fan running so it points over you but also hits a wall to diffuse the air and keep things circulating.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 20 July 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

cool wet washcloth --> on forehead

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 July 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

i couldn't sleep AT ALL last night, which is pretty bizarre for me. tho nerves were at work too.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 July 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Last night I went to see Matthew Shipp play a solo improv gig at the Red Rose in Finsbury Park, and I don't think I've EVER been at such a hot, stifling gig - this smallish airless room filled with warm jazz bodies and no air con, ventilation or fans - i had to leave after Shipp's first set, i thought i was going to pass out

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 21 July 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

I like the little "Help!" in the corner of the page. Chart appears to be begging for mercy in a small whiney voice that way.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Jaq, why not have a cold shower? I like to stand in it for 20 minutes and direct the jet at alll parts of me so they all get to cool off and it seems to work wonders - should I not be doing so?

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Another good one is to wrap an ice cube in a paper towel and apply it to pulse points of inner wrist and inner elbow-bend. If I have been writing I like to also use bottle coolers as cuffs.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

When I lived in DC with no AC I used to sleep with wet towels draped over my body. AND take about six showers a day. A friend of mine who has lived in both places says that DC heat is worse than Vietnam.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

I think the deal with the cold shower is that it feels great when you are in it, but once you get out your body decides you are too cold and makes all the effort to warm you back up, which you don't need. So it's more counterproductive than a slightly warmer shower, especially if you are jumping into bed right after.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

i cant believe this is considered a heatwave:

5 days in the mid 30s. WOW.

didnt it reach 43C in sydney on NYE?

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

It's always humid and we don't do air con, okay? Plus we're all chinless repressed effeminate bottomdwellers with bad teeth and we collapse with the vapours the moment the clotted cream on our scones starts to go runny.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

i know!

and, yeah, humidity sucks.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

AND you don't have screens, so there are dead moths stuck to your bad teeth and to the clotted cream on your scones!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

how do you people have an empire when you have no screens?

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

and when was there time between all that hand-crank clothes-washing?

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

i cant believe this is considered a heatwave:

We're at the same latitude as Moscow and central Canada - cut us some slack!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

I have to point out Sam that the vast majority of Britishers now DO have electric washing machines, it's just me and a few people living in caravans that use up our empire-building energies in cranking by hand :)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

It rained this morning! Hooray! But now it is getting warm again, bastard weather.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 22 July 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

Great huge plops of rain! But soon after it had finished it was still 20 degrees outside. I think last night was the worst night so far.

We're supposed to be boxing things up and moving boxes into storage today and tomorrow, but we just can't face it. I think our estate agent is getting rather impatient with us, because we won't put it on the market until we've cleared the junk out, but he'll just have to wait as it's too darn hot.

The digital thermometer is registering 28 degrees already outside, which is exactly the same temperature as the one in the kitchen drawer

― Vicky (Vicky), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2006-07/24500258.jpg

― taco de ojo (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Curse having a flat roof - that thunderstorm was mental. Looks lovely out now though, even if I'm going to be spending the whole day sitting in pubs.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Might as well get in the kitchen drawer then.

No rain in Mhead.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 22 July 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/cronaca/animali-caldo/ap85616022207121236_big.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Saturday, 22 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39275000/jpg/_39275907_otter.jpg

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 22 July 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

it was 48C/118F in the shade in yuma, az yesterday

― -- (688), Saturday, 22 July 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

otter!

― stop moving. (cis), Saturday, 22 July 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

What is this giving animals ice lollies craze about?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 22 July 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

It seems pretty sensible to me considering the heat and the way drought measures are being implemented.

So there was thunderstorms judging by puddles on the ground but they've had no effect.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 22 July 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 22 July 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

In Japan:

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/cronaca/animali-caldo/ap85299532207121217_big.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Saturday, 22 July 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Meanwhile, in Germany:

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/cronaca/animali-caldo/ansa85552722207121241_big.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Saturday, 22 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Is there a worldwide hosepipe ban then? Or is it just in south east England?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 22 July 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Christopher, what do you think of ice lollies for animals - sensible or stupid?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I think those Monkeys would prefer a Fab.

All these lollies look a bit... health food shop

― Porkpie (porkpie), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

I think you are sidestepping the central controversy there.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

sensible

happy now?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

That last one looks a bit like frozen vom.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

No.

You were supposed to back me up in my anti-ice lollies for animals crusade.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot do that, just think of the joy a photo of an elephant holding a mini-milk in it's trunk would bring.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

[Bangs head on desk in frustration]

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

or even better, a griraffe wrapping it's tongue round an aptly named tonguetwister.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Saturday, 22 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

> That last one looks a bit like frozen vom.

i think they are meaty, somehow, stuff they'd normally eat frozen into lolly shapes. that one was a blood lolly. (um, tries to remember those vampire-themed lollies he had as a kid with blood red innards. fails).

the sticks thing is a bad idea though. that monkey's about to end up with a mouth full of splinters.

the rain has just made W12 sticker, not cooler.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Saturday, 22 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

The hottest temperature ever recorded in this city is about 90F. We have the crappiest summers of pretty much any country in the entire world. I'm liking it warm, for a change.

Is Ken still looking for 'Heatwave'?

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 22 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I want an otter, I want I want I want

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 22 July 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Vampire ice lollies = Dracula lollies. They were minging. I want a strawberry mivvi right now, but I haven't seen one for years. Soleros come close, but they aren't strawberry flavoured.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 July 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Forecast for this week in London: Tuesday 32C, Wednesday 34C. It's not going away, is it? Air-con is not likely to be fixed at work either; temp where the condensers are on the roof was apparently 55C last week, so they're just tripping out.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 22 July 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

It's 109°F here. Of course I'm very grateful to have it, but the air conditioning isn't helping very much. I'm sweatin' like a bastard and my stomach is killing me. I've never had heat make me sick before. Ugh. This sucks. I had tickets to see the Raconteurs play at the Warfield tonight. I was really looking forward to this show (especially after the BS Gnarls Barkley pulled at the Fillmore Tuesday night—grrr!), but there's no way I'm going. I just can't. :(

― Mama Roux (Mama Roux), Saturday, 22 July 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Our New England heat wave seems to be over. I actually got chilled at work today, weeding a pea-stone driveway in scanty clothing while it rained on me. Ran the heat in the car on my way home.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 22 July 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

The temp has dropped a bit, here, but the continuing rain only serves to increase humidity. GROSS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 22 July 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.victorystore.com/Baseball/can

― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 23 July 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

if you guys just had a/c it would be so much easier. That summer of 76' sounds like an average April or September here!

You live where I live. (Actually, isn't that the way it's been over the past two winters?)

I would sacrifice all manner of objects to whomever to have a summer where the temperature is 80 degrees F every day, with only a few days of 90-degree weather. Over here, the high has reached 100-plus so many times during the summer that it's an anomaly to not experience at least a week's worth of same. I believe the hottest day I ever lived through was one where the high went up to about 45.5 degrees C (114 degrees F). Couple that with our sunshine, which is so potent in strength the rays can actually cause pain, and constantly measurable humidity levels of ~ 35 - 40% and -- yup, it's party time.

You rest of the worlders? Welcome to the reason why a lot of people don't particularly look forward to this whole summer thing.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 23 July 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

I live in HELL!

No, you don't, Ned. Jennie and I do. Today in Hell, it reached 112 degrees F or 45 C. The humidity was about 30-35%. Tomorrow's forecast is 113 F. As of 12:58 am PST (after midnight, bitchez) it was 97 F/36 C.

Went for a swim twice today. But it was not refreshing as it usually is. The pool water was warm like bath water. I'm guessing the water temp was around 85-88 degrees. It was probably not 90 degrees because we kept running fresh cold water into the pool.

Last week I tried to drink some bottled water I left in the car. I figured even though it's going to be warm water, it's better than nothing when thirsty. But I ended up burning my tongue trying to take a sip. Yowzah!

― Melinda Mess-injure (Melinda Mess-injure), Sunday, 23 July 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

2AM in portland
76 deg F
78% humidity

fuck this

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 23 July 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/bowl/jpgs/fouryork.jpg

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Sunday, 23 July 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

"When I were a lad we had bubonic plague, World War and a global flu pandemic."

"Bubonic plage, World War and a global flu pandemic? That would've been paradise for us! When I were a lad we had global warming."

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 23 July 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

alisa - strawberry mivis = boxes of 4 all over tesco's.

― pisces (piscesx), Sunday, 23 July 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Everything is moldy. We run the dehumidifier during the day when we're gone, but when we open the windows and doors for fresh air in the evening it re-humidifies.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 23 July 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Toronto where it's def. cooler!! (21 C - though my god the humidity!)

― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

No, you don't, Ned.

That was Jennie's line I was quoting!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Blackouts as US temperatures soar... 50 degrees centigrade reached in California... people dying... power grid unable to cope with demand... not clear when power will be restored... and yet the only two references in this thread to "global warming" are in jokes (one of them mine)... Berlin continues its heatwave, with temperatures forecast to climb to 38C by Friday... record July temperature for July 37C... heatwave on two continents... "this will be a short thread"... well, apparently not... should mods change it to "Rolling "I CAN'T STAND IT THIS HOT" thread"?

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

no.. the ironing is delicious!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Genius Jeremy Clarkson reasoning in his Sun column yesterday: everyone made a big fuss about bird flu and lo and behold that hasn't killed everyone after all, ergo global warming isn't going to either.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

the 'short thread' reference i take to mean the mistaken belief that somehow britain doesnt have long hot DRY summers (that weird thing british people do, when its hot and dry for weeks and weeks and weeks, then it rains for one day, and they say "pah, typical bloody english summer, always raining"

i am surprised theres not more mention of global warming, i think the weather *has* changed over the last 10 years. i no longer have a raincoat of any description, anyway

― -- (688), Monday, 24 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

our air conditioning has been broken for almost two weeks now. it's only supposed to get up to 90 today with 60% humidity! (32c) yay DC summer

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

It's been consistently around 105F here for the last few days, and my house doesn't have air conditioning, and I've had the flu. Worst weekend ever.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

i am surprised theres not more mention of global warming, i think the weather *has* changed over the last 10 years. i no longer have a raincoat of any description, anyway

the weather does seem more extreme. in six months ukilx will be talking about the atlantic conveyer shutting down cos it's so cold.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

MySpace shut down by US heatwave

At least some good is coming of this.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Rupert Murdoch defeated by the sun!

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

WILL THERE EVER BE A RAINBOW????

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 24 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

my bedroom hit 112 fahrenheit. i'm dying here people.

― Dxy (Danny), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Also: my p.c. broke because my room ws so warm that condensation formed inside the tower. i had to get a new processor and motherboard :|

― Dxy (Danny), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

It was only supposed to be in the 70's today (after a blazing hot weekend) but on my jaunt down to an interview today, it must have been in the mid-90's in the sun so I was a sweaty mess when I arrived.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 24 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

it's 108 degrees in india! get over yourselves and get into the pool!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

homemade A/C projects are popping up on livejournal:

http://wj.livejournal.com/89218.html
http://community.livejournal.com/damnportlanders/8058178.html

if nothing else, it gives you something to do whilst your melting brain dribbles out your ears

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

Earlier today i took a bucket of water into the garden and poured it over my head

(ok, it's because our shower is being retiled, but as a heat beating activity i can't recommend it enough!)

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

go to a friend's house with air conditioning. DUR. or like, the library. middle classers r SILLY

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

Despite being hot as all fuck, I don't think TX has been disproportionately bad this year.

Maybe it's a combination of spending more time in the heat over the past couple of years plus the non-existent winter (45 ramping up to 100 is hell, 80 ramping up to 100 is just annoying), but I'm bothered less by the heat than ever.

I reserve the right to bitch constantly if it keeps peaking in the upper-90s/triple-digits come September.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of texas

Lubbock, Texas, plans to pray for rain

LUBBOCK, Texas, July 24 (UPI) -- Public officials in Lubbock, Texas, are organizing a day to pray for rain.

"Nobody is going to tell God what to do and what not to do, but we are in a serious drought in West Texas and since he is the man who controls the rain clouds, we're asking him for his mercy and his help," Mayor David Miller told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

The City Council and the Lubbock County commissioners are expected to adopt resolutions this week asking local residents to both pray and fast for rain this Sunday.

So far this year, Lubbock has received about half of its normal 10 inches. In the weeks since June 1, the growing season for cotton, rainfall has been a scant .75 inches, far less than the normal 4.43 inches.

Officials have tried prayers before and say they were answered. In January 2004, after a year of drought, the city and county set aside a Sunday to pray for rain and got the second-wettest year since records have been kept.

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― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

it's 108 degrees in india! get over yourselves and get into the pool!

l.a. county just recorded its highest temperature ever -- 119 degrees in woodland hills. that's some death valley shit.

― taco de ojo (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

Unpleasantly hot today, not helped by more useless than usual First Great Western. It is so hot I started walking the wrong way alomng Oxford Street, after dodging down shady backstreets as far as possible.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

It is indeed cooler in the country. Why did I come back to London, and an office whose air con is still broken?

Our server went down because of the heat.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

The City Council and the Lubbock County commissioners are expected to adopt resolutions this week asking local residents to both pray and fast for rain this Sunday.
IA lovely reminder of why I refused to go to Texas Tech.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of rain and average temps predicted for mid August in London! Hoo-rah!

In October, I'll be moaning if it's too mild to wear a jumper.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

or like, the library.

I know what I'm doing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, it's not so much the day as it is the night...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

cooled down up here some, only 80 deg F today, according to my little desktop widget

bring on the damn rain

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Boy, did it rain! about 03:00, one intense storm. Then it stopped.. Hot is back, today...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

is it me or have the weather forcasts been an abomination lately? they keep changing on the bbc site, supposed to have thunderstorms today, suddenly now we're not.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

This is the face BBC symbol at the moment...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/images/symbols/fiveday_sym/29.gif
Seems to suggest thunder/rain and sun. Apparantly this will start at about 4pm to-day. I am going to stand out in it if it does.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

face = fave

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

Apparantly = apparently

I can't type in this heat.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

I brought a brolly with me to work = it won't rain today. And I'll leave it on the bus.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

which is when it will rain.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

I got woken up by thundery rumbles this morning. Actually, the dog got woken up by thundery rumbles and the woke up half the street so they could have listen, too.

That was about 5am in deepest south london. All dry and HOT again now.

Something on the wires today about California being littered with decomposing cattle who have keeled over in 48C heat and not been disposed of. Sounds lovely.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

it's roasting here in glasgow but my BBC weather widget tells me the forecast is for heavy showers. so much for hanging the washing outside, i guess.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

Today our phone system went down because of the heat.

I wish this had been a short thread, timewise.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

it's indeed a lot cooler here today, i don't even have the fan on yet. i've tempted fate tho by wearing a black tshirt!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's certainly not cooler here. Like an idiot, I forgot we could dress down today and came in in a black polo shirt when I could have worn a vest.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm hotter than ever today :(

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

It's so horridly humid. The back of my neck is all clammy :(

When I was younger - up to about my mid-twenties, I suppose - I loved loved loved the heat. I didn't care how hot and sunny it got, I'd be out in it all the time, and never seemed to wilt. Now at the age of 38 I am beginning to think I prefer winter. I will actively choose to walk down the shady side of the street as opposed to the sunny side. What is happening to me?? Maybe I am turning into a goth or something.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

drakula?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

Fangs for that.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

for fucks sake, it was supposed to be cooler today, and it's the hottest day yet in our office! (it's over 90 on all the floors)

i'm really pretty sick of this.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 27 July 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

poor you, i think i actually shivered walking to work this morning

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Where are the thunderstorms we have been promised for days?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

They only last for 4 minutes at a time.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 July 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

today (yesterday) was better: there was a breeze. still too hot to do much walking.

― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 July 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

apparently it's also hard on show cows and pigs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5217522.stm

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 27 July 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

I was awoken by quite a big thunderstorm at about 1 o'clock this morning. It's done nothing to clear the air though, because it's still horribly humid and not much cooler today.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

It is awful. I think I have some kind of reverse SAD - everything has been making me miserable since this heat started (no, no, not This Heat, gahhh).

I think this may be the case with me too. For the last three or four summers I've found myself becoming inconsolably at odds with myself, snappy, insomniac and depressed despite nothing being terribly wrong with my life. I love the outdoors and the sunshine and even the heat is more welcome than winter weather but something about the summer months just agitates me. I don't like it as I'm not the same person during these times as in the winter and even when I used to go on holidays with my parents as a kid I'd turn into a whiney snivelling little oik.
It's only this year that I've noticed a pattern. What is going on?!

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of lovely fork lightning over Streatham way (probably much further SW than that, actually, considering I couldn't hear the thunder) around midnight last night but it never came near SE19.

We leave the patio doors open all day to get some air flow in the house and gradually collect all manner of bugs as a result, all of whom gather around the lamps, the TV and the laptop in the evening. If they're not mosquitoes they certainly sound like 'em.

Air-con fixed in the office - yay!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

There was lightning last night? I didn't hear a thing. Damn. I was hoping it was gonna rain properly but the heat hasn't broken.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hush Michael, you'll just convince the Americans that they were right all along re madness of no-screens Britain.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

They are crazier they rinse their dishes and don't have washing machine in their houses.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Besides, its never hot in England.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

I sent my dad the links to the home made A/C last night, this morning I had a phone call at work saying he has built one using an old motorbike raditor, a fan and a cool box. He has just switched it on so i'll find out tonight if it works at all. It goes without saying that my Mum is out, her reaction to finding all this junk in her front room will probably depend on how well it works.

― Merrini (Mezza), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

can he build me one??

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

me too!

there was much lightning and torrential rain on our way into royston last night, despite it being nothing but sunshine in hitchin just down the way

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

at least you're not working with molten metal, kids.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i've been feeling quite sorry for my mate who's a farrier. Having to work outside all day in this heat with a ferocious burning furnace by her side, and being kicked half to death by evil horses.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

i will never understand the no screens thing and not rinsing dishes thing.

another big difference is that a lot of brits think that buying pre-shredded cheese is like the laziest thing ever.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

whoa there tiger, whats this not rinsing dishes thing. i do it and i'm british

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

me too. i can't stand it when people don't rinse the dishes. but we've discussed this elsewhere.

pre-shredded cheese is really really lazy. i just rip bits off with my claws.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

we did a whole thread about rinsing dishes before.... cant seem to find it now!

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Pre-grated cheese is wrong because cheese in its grated state quickly goes hard and dry, hence to sell it in an edible condition they must be adding crap to it. It's also more expensive surely?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Dog latin:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/BWOC3.jpg

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I don't understand about the not-rinsing-dishes thing. After washing them? Do people put them away covered with soap and flecks of food? The hell?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

it think they mean before you leave them in the sink and/or before putting them in the dishwasher?

the only problem with preshredded cheese is that its too thick. i like to shred thin so it melts nicely on/in hot food. its better chunkier on salads though, yes.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Someone please revive the original thread!

(In summary: non-rinsers generally leave dishes to drain in a suitable rack type thing, and detergent does not adhere so when they're dry there is no 'soap' residue contrary to popular (American) belief.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

here is the dish rinsing thread

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

er, Defend the Indefensible: British People Not Rinsing Soap Off the Dishes

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Defend the Indefensible: British People Not Rinsing Soap Off the Dishes

xpost

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

I better start moving house EARLY on Sunday, cuz it's sposta be 92 fuckindegrees...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

wetter and slightly cooler seems to be how things are about go (not so for NYC, Berlin and numerous other places)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

cloudy all day here in the north of england, windy. but still no rain or thunderstorms

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, before I launch into that non-rinsing thread, I just want to say that at my mother's house I have had food that tasted like soap because of her haphazard dishwashing practices.
Maybe American dish liquid is harder to rinse off because it has so much lotiony greasy stuff. It doesn't clean as well as dishwashing-machine soap for that reason. And STILL gives me dermatitis. It's a misbegotten notion that ANYTHING can strip grease AND not dry out/irritate skin.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I rinse and I wish we had screens, but then I'm heavily US-influenced.

Heat a contributory factor to the rollin' blackouts in Soho/West End today which left my office without power from 2pm. Went home at 3:45pm. Partially "yay" but also partially "oh god no" because the workload doesn't go away just cos I can't turn my PC on. More "scheduled" blackouts tomorrow too. Fanx, EDF.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Finally, a real break in the heat, but the most important thing was the inch-plus of rain.

Are there any weather nerds who can show me where to get year-to-date rain totals for a given city? I'm having a hard time finding that.

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

Back to stinking heat and humidity here. Every pore poured.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

god, the uk people complaining about the heat are menks. it is LUSH here so don't listen to them, people-who-live-in-seriously-uncomfortable-and-humid-places. can't get enough of it. in fact i think i am going to offer myself to the sungods right now.

of course if you're complaining about it cos of what it signifies rather than what it is then it's a bit different... i read/heard somewhere they're predicting another dry autumn/winter and a seriously fucked up summer 2007.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

its not lush when you are on a bus, and the temperature is 50C plus, because there is no air conditioning, and the bus is rammed with people, and the roads are rammed with cars.

it is kind of lush that my clothes dry straight from the machine though, and that im dry almost as soon as i get out the shower

― -- (688), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

ie, yea, 35C isnt particularly hot, but most places with temperatures around that level have, you know, air conditioning

― -- (688), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

although, having said that, it rained on thursday didnt it? for about, 45 minutes!

― -- (688), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, bus window design is stupid - it's the buses you should complain about though, not the glorious sunshine! i was out in the rain on thursday, heading into town from brixton. that was good too. i like weather. i like seasons.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

weather is perfect today. PERFECT. but i'm stuck indoors in warm room working on covert operations (deadline Monday) :(

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

In fact if we were to have big power cuts in Hackney borough generally I would be completely screwed.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Our hot water hasn't worked for a week because of a boiler fault. Took four days for us to notice...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Saturday, 29 July 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

weather back down to sane levels out here

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sanity has been restored.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 30 July 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

it was not warm enough yesterday. same today.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, 22 down here right now and the heavens are probably going to open in a few seconds.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

actually slept under duvet last night for first time in what feels like a month. even shut the bedroom window.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

i put the fire on

― -- (688), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

still no bug influx in my house

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

It's finally a decent weather today. I don't even have to have the fan on in my office, and I've got my hair down for the first time in a month.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think Edith cried because she was cold last night. Usually she cries because she's hot. Usually lately, I mean.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

The doors are open and the wind is just omnipresent. HURRAH for goosebumps due to chilliness.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

so much colder today, "weather is shit in this country!" etc etc

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the only one who hasn't found it that much cooler? I know that the temperature has dropped a bit, but it's still about 25 degrees in our bedroom overnight, with the windows wide open. When I was out getting lunch the breeze was nice, but it was warm, people were walking to work this morning with jackets on, I think they're all nuts. And we haven't really had proper rain in Walthamstow, despite many promises.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

NOW IT'S RAINING LOOK WHAT YOU DONE YOU FUCKS

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah! I love the rain!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

It is still warm, especially upstairs.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm cold now :(

― C J (C J), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps it will make our grass grow. i threw some evil=smelling liquid out of the compost bin at it and i have watered it, but it is quite wimpy grass.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

It's still warmish here (high 90s/30s), but so so dry it's heavenly after the sticky mugginess of the cooler Toronto area. Gloriously cool on the way into work in the mornings, but too hot to walk home. So we got bikes yesterday on the theory of a) not staying out in the hot for so long is better and b) you have to work, but you make your own breeze and this is good. Do I have to start thinking of myself as an athletic sort and consider the insectoid lycra advertising-laden special padded clothes?

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

i checked out the historical temp averages for arkansas. looks like things arent going to be nice until at least october. oh, and I LOVE YOU JANUARY.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

It's going to be 99 degrees (F) tomorrow in Charlotte.

Special Weather Statement!

...HOT AND HUMID THIS WEEK ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF THE CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA...

HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT...WILL PRODUCE GENERALLY FAIR WEATHER OVER OUR REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY. BUT...TEMPERATURES WILL WARM TO SOME OF THEIR HIGHEST LEVELS SO FAR THIS YEAR.

MANY FOOTHILL AND PIEDMONT LOCATIONS CAN EXPECT MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 90S...WITH THE MERCURY ONLY EXPECTED TO DROP TO NEAR 70 AT NIGHT. ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED TO PROVIDE NATURAL COOLING AND MUCH- NEEDED RAIN.

THE AIR MASS WILL ALSO BECOME INCREASINGLY HUMID THIS WEEK. THE HEAT INDEX...THE COMBINATION OF TEMPERATURES AND HUMIDITY AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THE BODY/S ABILITY TO COOL ITSELF...WILL CREEP OVER THE 100 DEGREE MARK AND POSSIBLY APPROACH ADVISORY CRITERIA TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY.

So yeah if I stop posting I probably died.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

My sister was stationed somewhere in the Carolinas for the military and said it was the only place she'd ever seen birds panting on the ground because of the heat :(

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

100F here today tuesday and wednesday.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

CNN is inventing new shades of red to illustrate heatwave.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/WEATHER/07/31/heatwave.ap/story.mon.heat.gif

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

They should just make it black.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

I hope your power's hanging in there, Teeny :( I really had forgotten how completely miserable the hot, humid midwest can be.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

They should just make it black.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), July 31st, 2006 1:56 PM. (Ned) (later) (link)

WITH SKULLS AND DEAD BODIES.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Worst GOTHWAVE in over 100 years

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

It was quite pleasant this morning.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it's looking peachy this week in London - 23-25C, occasional shower, breezy. Smashing. When I walked up the hill to the X68 bus stop this morning it was about 18C and a little damp; I like seasons as much as the next major dude but, if we were going to be stuck with anything, it would be that early October freshness I experienced this morning.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

off to wales for the weekend where it says 16 for the Saturday. oh well.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

This morning I was actually COLD as I waited for the train.

it was GLORIOUS.

English weather back to being English. Suuuuu-perb.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

new york is being told "it will be hard to breathe".

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Will be 26/27C in South England this Saturday, partial cloud. Ideal. A bit more rain between now and then would be nice tho so there's still some freshness.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

well, I'm going to quit smoking

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

I am beginning to suspect the Britishes set up very large fans and blew all the heat our way. :/

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

this thread has been momusized:

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71491-0.html?tw=rss.index

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

[harry-knowles-in-a-beefeater.jpg]

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

WORST NYC WEATHER EVER

(a blast of midsummer Phoenix)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

What would be the first sign that we really were starting to become "digital flesh," I wonder? How about a tendency to die when the power goes off?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

the heat is slowly turning robbing me of any last vestiges of sentience

― reivaxz (xave), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

ANDREW, QUICK TO REDIRECT WIRED LINK TO GOATSE

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

if you're hot, try wearing shorts. muahaha.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

i'm DYING here... 37 degrees in toronto, 48 with the humdidex thing.
just saw on the news that temps have hit record highs here in ontario - no surprise there... but st. catherine's (with the humidex), has just hit the 50 degree celsius mark... jesus

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

LET ONE HUNDRED FANS BLOW, LET ONE HUNDRED SHORTS BE WORN

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

The holy wars begin.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

is this really the worst nyc summer ever? i remember 2002 or 2003(?) seeming worse? and there was the 2001 heat wave, though the early part of that summer was better?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

"THIS WILL BE A SHORT THREAD TIMEWISE NO DOUBT SOB SOB SOB"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

96, feels like 107

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

surface temperature is not air temperature, but still...

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/141367main_landsat_surf_temp_lg.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

records

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

yah the title feels like its increasingly mocking me.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

STORM TIME

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

You will wash away to the sea, though. And would you want that?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

i like the sea fine

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Then all is well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

plus right now it's just crazy crazy lightning everywhere in the sky!
but the rain's agonna come. oh, here it is.

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

holy crap! i just got soaked standing in teh doorway of my building! it is blowing rain everywhere! and the (not huge but not small) tree on the corner got knocked down!

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

car alarms going off! hipsters whooping and running up the street!

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

A sign from the heavens! Godspeed should put on an impromptu performance and call it "Weather Release WithIn Scope Of the Reverse Angle."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

haha!
i should put on a performance called "wind-rain heat dispersal runs you to the end of the block where the tree fell, thunderous applause"
one oscillator, a bass, and deep humming

it's like freakin bladerunner out there

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

rain? weather.com says my hood "feels like 105".

Clear skys though.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

Rain would be a mitzvah; it's fucking oven hot here in dirty jersey and humid like an armpit.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

I was actually cold walking along Oxford Street this morning. A delightful feeling.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

I WANT SO BADLY TO BE COLD.

Ottawa, I hate you right now.

― surfer_stone_rosa (surfer_stone_rosa), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

I cut down a tree with my puny pruning saw yesterday. My heart was going nuts. I had to keep hosing myself down. It would have been less stressful on the system if I took it slow or USED AN APPROPRIATE TOOL, but I wanted that sucker DOWN. And cut into a gazillion pieces!
Today will be a less strenuous day. Maybe.
HYDRATE, PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'm kinda cold today

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ladylumberjack.ca/images/new_LL_book_cover.jpg

Beth, yesterday

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

I closed up the bedroom last night to make the most of the window unit. I slept half the night on top of the covers with the air blowing directly on me, and that kept me just cool enough. I did make the mistake, though, of leaving the windows closed in the living room, and this morning it was an oven -- it may have actually been 90 degrees in there. I put on the pant that had been hanging on the back of a chair in the living room, and they felt toasty, like they were fresh out of the dryer. Which usually feels nice, but not this time.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

best shirt i saw yesterday

http://i24.ebayimg.com/04/i/05/db/00/9f_2.JPG

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://acuterecords.com/hot.jpg

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

My bottled water in the car could have been used to brew tea. Drank it anyway, to avoid heat stress. I worked for four hours, planted a couple of rosebushes in horrendous hardpan soil. I practically needed a pick-ax to break it up. Many bags of compost hauled and dug in, much dousing of self with the hose. I am crazy, I guess.

There were only two girls working in the garden center. They had sent all the rest of the people home, forgetting that a truck delivery was coming. When I left they were both reclining on carts in the dusty parking lot, slathered with sweat and baby oil, soaking up rays, waiting for the truck. They are crazy, too, I guess.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 3 August 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday I cut the grass using a push mower. My riding mower was at the shop. The sweat was incredible. When I finished I took a nice cool bath, but before I started running the water, while I was getting outta my shorts, I looked up into the mirror above the sink and I had totally steamed it up as if someone had just taken a hot shower. This is new to me and I don't think it's a good thing.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 3 August 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

As long as you're not STILL steaming it up.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 3 August 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

I got rained on this morning - marvellous!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

ok i give up. what the hell is the weather going to be like this weekend?

i'm camping in wales but have no clue as to whether to pack tshirts and shorts or long sleeves and jeans, coat?! there's only so much i can take.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

fuck this august winter.

are you going to the big chill ste? weather forecast for hereford is fine on saturday, rain on sunday, if that's any help.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

no, off to abersoch for some, hopefully weather permitting, swimming and fishing!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

My son, who drives a delivery truck for a lumberyard, just made an emergency stop back home when he realized that he had only put deodorant on ONE ARMPIT. Quick shower and change.
A pit-stop.
I am really dragging my feet about getting out there to mow a huge-ass lawn.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Also, my sneakers are WMDs. Maybe if I just wave them around the lawngrass will lie down and DIE.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

This is a vision.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh air conditioner, how I love you. Keep working this well all summer, and I could leave you everything in my will.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Only one of the vents in my car blows out cold A/C. Obviously not one of the ones near me.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been using my car A/C because of the gas$$$$. Windows open. My hair is a mess, but I'm hoping the effect is ravishing rather than crazy-lady.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I actually drive an oven instead of a car, so unfortunately windows open just blows around hot air without ever making anything cooler. I do get to be all sweaty though.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

So you don't have to cook steaks on your manifold. You can cook them on the dashboard!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Trying to put a positive spin on things - article in this morning's paper re: we are fatter because of climate control, sweating burns calories, hot weather kills your appetite, etc.

Bicycling home from work = still damn hot, and uphill, but for less time, so worth it.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

but i don't want to be any thinner than i already am!!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I always think to myself "well at least this is basically a free sauna." :/

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Don't they say though, Beth, that running the car AC with windows up burns less gas than driving with windows down, because of the increased wind resistance caused by open windows?

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

The gas savings from no A/C disappear around 40mph (depending your car style).

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

so the low temperature last night was 87°F (30.5°C). that is just bullshit.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

The sky is broken.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 3 August 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

Car Talk guys said a few weeks ago that AC on with windows closed uses less gas than windows open.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 4 August 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

... and AC off.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 4 August 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

We have an air conditioner and I am glad. I know a day will come when there won't be enough energy for such extravagance. That day is not today.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 4 August 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

how i wish i had an air conditioner. especially now, as the trash has just been picked up, which means the trash has just been stirred up and smells released into the air. mmmm, the putrid stench of garbage that's been baking all day. the worst will be later, though, when the poultry store garbage pickup comes. :(

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Friday, 4 August 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am ýn turkey. ýt ýs blummýn 38 here. Well at least I can be used to ýt back ýn englþand next week.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 4 August 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, A/C researchers! I hated all that wind, anyway!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 4 August 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Umm, can we have the hot weather back again now? I'm ready and prepared.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 17 August 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

I can see a bit of blue.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 17 August 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

word. this summer is making me crazy; it's totally bipolar.

xpost

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 17 August 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to say that the high in Austin today will be 101F. How are the rest of you doing? still sweating?

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

in the mornings its cool, by midday its warmed up and i no longer need long sleeves. Not boiling though, just nice.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

long sleeves!!

I forgot about these. I think I have some in a box in the garage.

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

oh now we got some cool thunderstorms happening

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's coming in.. The heat is returning..

(Last night, Reading, nice!)

granted, overnight, major rainstorm...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

so this feels like the coolest August for some time. talk about tipping the scales the other way. wo est mein meterological balance?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

duh duhduh duh duhduh duh duhduh duh duhduh HEATWAVE

er.. it's old now, but i finally got the original heatwave song thingie.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

it'd COLD now even

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

It seemed to turn right round in a matter of 2 weeks.

and now, we are living here:

I CAN'T STAND IT THIS WET!!! (this will be a short thread,timewise, hopefully)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

It's a bit warm. And getting hotter.

― Mark G, Monday, 29 June 2009 10:21 (sixteen years ago)

Been unable to sleep well for a couple of nights and forecasts are still hotter so I hope I start getting used to the temp soon

― StanM, Monday, 29 June 2009 10:50 (sixteen years ago)

was gorgeous last night, cycling home very late it was perfectly still and amazingly warm.

is yummy warm today, and afternoon off !

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Monday, 29 June 2009 10:58 (sixteen years ago)

Is this the thread for people who hate hot weather and who are consistently miserably all summer? Because if it is, you are my people.

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 29 June 2009 12:13 (sixteen years ago)

Well, I like it 'hot'

Just not 1) This hot 2) in the office 3) or anywhere not at the beach/home/leisure area....

― Mark G, Monday, 29 June 2009 12:23 (sixteen years ago)

Me too, but I do need a cross breeze and to-day it's so still.

― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 29 June 2009 12:27 (sixteen years ago)

I pretty much don't like hot weather at all. My favourite times of year are spring & autumn.

I especially don't like it when the air conditioning is broken in the office :(

― Colonel Poo, Monday, 29 June 2009 12:50 (sixteen years ago)

I have a balcony at my disposal...with a great view of a parking lot.

― bad hijab (suzy), Monday, 29 June 2009 12:53 (sixteen years ago)

It's very hot in here too, I'm sweating

― Tuomas, Monday, 29 June 2009 12:54 (sixteen years ago)

It's very hot in here too, I'm sweating a lot at work. Is this an Europe-wide heatwave?

― Tuomas, Monday, 29 June 2009 12:55 (sixteen years ago)

If it's like this tomorrow, I'm gonna wear shorts. Thank god my office has minimal dress code.

― Tuomas, Monday, 29 June 2009 12:56 (sixteen years ago)

Monday morning is always the worst because they've had the AC off all weekend and don't turn it back on until 9 am (even though the building opens at 7:30) so it's got that stale, humid, nasty feeling instead of that stale, crisp, air conditioned feeling. I know when my upper lip starts sweating while I'm sitting at my desk typing that I'm in for a real bullshit morning.

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 29 June 2009 14:00 (sixteen years ago)

worked 6-2 today, pretty sweet. it's roasting hot now. only prob is i feel i should be out having the time of my life but all my friends are in work

― Local Garda, Monday, 29 June 2009 14:09 (sixteen years ago)

dude let's party

― the funk soul custos (country matters), Monday, 29 June 2009 14:10 (sixteen years ago)

wd bro in places. God, the drive back to London this morning was torturous. Until dd's girlfriend (her car) woke up as we were going through Earl's Court and was all "uh, would you guys mind switching on the air con?"

Air conditioning? In a Seat?

― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Monday, 29 June 2009 14:31 (sixteen years ago)

she drives a seat! she must be one crazy customer :D :D :D

― the funk soul custos (country matters), Monday, 29 June 2009 14:34 (sixteen years ago)

Heat sucks.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 29 June 2009 14:36 (sixteen years ago)

you, come and bro with us, we doin' this thing impromptu

i mean this can be a thing right

― the funk soul custos (country matters), Monday, 29 June 2009 14:38 (sixteen years ago)

I would but I'm going to go see ~~robotporn~~ Transformers at imax in a bit.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 29 June 2009 14:43 (sixteen years ago)

lame and reprehensible but kinda fair enough

why can a dude not organise a thing

― the funk soul custos (country matters), Monday, 29 June 2009 14:45 (sixteen years ago)

Because you are doing it on a thread where about 3 people complain about the heat and no-one else is paying attention?

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 29 June 2009 14:46 (sixteen years ago)

this is meant to be totally off the cuff inna "hey let's do a thing" impulsive style

haven't reached critical mass yet

― the funk soul custos (country matters), Monday, 29 June 2009 14:48 (sixteen years ago)

what do you reckon should be done? just saw this....where do you even live louis?

― Local Garda, Monday, 29 June 2009 15:09 (sixteen years ago)

i'm heading into town this evening for a friend's leaving-for-paris drinks anyway...maybe some beerz at around 7 pm?

― the funk soul custos (country matters), Monday, 29 June 2009 15:18 (sixteen years ago)

Uh, according to my rather limited research, it is not actually that hot in Britain right now, and it seems almost cool in lovely Finland. ???

― Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Monday, 29 June 2009 15:30 (sixteen years ago)

your research is hella rong

― wrong traditions are kept alive (country matters), Monday, 29 June 2009 15:31 (sixteen years ago)

I guess maybe amuricans and britishers just have different standards when it comes to heat. But, really, in finland it sounds absolutely pleasant.

― Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Monday, 29 June 2009 15:37 (sixteen years ago)

Here in south central New Mexico it is cloudy and cool at 70º F! Gotta get my brag on now, while it lasts...it was in the high 90s on Friday & will soon be again.

― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Monday, 29 June 2009 15:43 (sixteen years ago)

Also what is this Seat one can drive?

― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Monday, 29 June 2009 15:43 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.seat.co.uk/
European car manufacturer

― snoball, Monday, 29 June 2009 15:47 (sixteen years ago)

Also, predicted to hit 32degC/90degF here on Thursday

― snoball, Monday, 29 June 2009 15:49 (sixteen years ago)

grrrrrrrroooooosssssssssssssssssssss

― salsa shark, Monday, 29 June 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)

"here", incidentally, being Surrey, England

― snoball, Monday, 29 June 2009 15:56 (sixteen years ago)

ten months pass...

They said it would be cooler today!

IT AINT!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 13:32 (sixteen years ago)

Turns out that I actually have a cold/temperature, but didn't realise yesterday because of the heat. I am hallucinating slightly and headbanging to Priest's "Brakinf The Law", so tonight's Eurovision should be interesting.

― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 13:51 (sixteen years ago)

Boston is warming up...

― ampersand (remy bean), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:00 (sixteen years ago)

tis a lot cooler in london temp wise but yeah still seems pretty warm

it's nice

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:01 (sixteen years ago)

today I can walk around in my shirt with the sleeves rolled up and think "this is nice" rather than "JESUS CHRIST", so that is good. I am terrible at high temperatures. Actually, get anywhere above 20c and I'll start to be troubled. I'll never be able to leave Scotland.

― Hippocrates or wat!! (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:04 (sixteen years ago)

28c here in Toronto. no job - lots o' time to enjoy the sun. love it.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 18:31 (sixteen years ago)

30c here! oh it is good to be warm again
(putting air conditioner back in tonight)

― planes/octaves/dimensions of existence (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 18:37 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

I can.

― Mark G, Thursday, 18 July 2013 11:51 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

gonna be mutherfukin 40C in Paris tomorrow

I moved here from the american midwest to avoid this kind of bullshit

― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:31 (ten years ago)

welcome to the future

― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:43 (ten years ago)

Wow, overnight 19 degrees!

― Mark G, Thursday, 2 July 2015 00:43 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

It's alright really...

― Mark G, Friday, 29 June 2018 20:37 (seven years ago)

could deffo get used to this, big southern hemisphere die-off and rising seas apocalypse notwithstanding!

― calzino, Friday, 29 June 2018 21:17 (seven years ago)

The humidity is quite low during the hottest part of the day, so it's not a total sweatfest. I work in an air conditioned office but have to walk about a mile to get to the bus station so swings and roundabouts really.

― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Friday, 29 June 2018 21:38 (seven years ago)

This is horrible, ban summer

― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 29 June 2018 21:42 (seven years ago)

Oh absolutely, summer is awful, my least favourite season by a considerable margin. Actually this year reminds me a lot of the summer of 2014 when I also had a job in an even more insanely air conditioned office and would step out at the end of the working day into what felt like the surface of Venus.

― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Friday, 29 June 2018 21:50 (seven years ago)

this is amazing, dublin like the adriatic

― the last famous poster you were surprised to discover was actually (darraghmac), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:20 (seven years ago)

low humidity 90 degree days in nyc make me feel like i'm back in vegas

― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:21 (seven years ago)

Fuck me, I remember the summer of '06 (in teh britain), it was scorching till the end of july, then august arrived and... it was fucking autumn. Like cloudy every fucking day. Don't even remember it raining overmuch, just relentless off white cloud cover. I associate it with the beginning of a major depressive episode, but it would be a stretch to say it caused it, as such. Lets say, it was not helpful, at that time. The weather did not come through for me when I could have done with at least a handful of sunny days.

― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:33 (seven years ago)

I just saw that the anticyclone over Britain should run out by the end of July, and that August (at least in France) will be less hot. I can hope; today it's 31 in Paris and it's a disgusting sweat fest for Pride (but not in a good way).

― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 30 June 2018 15:19 (seven years ago)

This entire summer has been amazing so far and we deserve it after the shitty, terrible spring we had.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 June 2018 15:21 (seven years ago)

I'd love it if it was like this all the time but by Christ I would have to change jobs. This week I've had to change into my suit at work to make the commute bearable.

― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Saturday, 30 June 2018 16:14 (seven years ago)

vancouver weather atm is off/on from nice sunny days to rain...that's kinda nice tbh

― Rhubarb (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 16:39 (seven years ago)

I live in an attic under a skylight, it's fucking horrible

― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 30 June 2018 22:36 (seven years ago)

Seven years ago this week, @USATODAY gave us the best newspaper graphic of all time. It will never stop being funny. pic.twitter.com/ojcUZgtEAl
— Brett Kelman (@BrettKelman) July 2, 2018

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 03:15 (seven years ago)

even though having to work indoors in the heat is rotten, the constant sunshine and light nights have done wonders for my mood, I wish the skies could always be so blue

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 09:04 (seven years ago)

all my blutack is failing. I take it this must be down to the heat.
So all the images i have on my walls are falling off.
& actually managing to function indoors at all is a chore.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 09:18 (seven years ago)

uk schools break for summer holidays in 3 weeks.
that's when this will all be over.

― mark e, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 09:22 (seven years ago)

windows open at night
idiot child above us laughs at 140dB

― the last famous poster you were surprised to discover was actually (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 09:30 (seven years ago)

xpost most Scottish schools finished up on Friday

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 09:31 (seven years ago)

ah ok .. I forgot they break up a lot earlier.
it is often the case that its lovely in the last few weeks of the summer term, and then when that bell rings, out come the clouds.
it has happened several times in the last few years.

― mark e, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 09:35 (seven years ago)

"uk schools break for summer holidays"

aka summer is ruined, again. I think it is this Friday here as well, so better get the taser charged up and hatches battened etc!

― calzino, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 09:39 (seven years ago)

I was assuming kids here had already broken up.
BUt now have to vie for space on buses with groups of visiting schoolkids from Italy or France. Always seem to stay at one specific point on the bus route and travel in groups of 30.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 09:43 (seven years ago)

oh yeah the fuckin yellow backpacks are back clogging the streets

― the last famous poster you were surprised to discover was actually (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 09:57 (seven years ago)

Some of the computer models are indicating all time record highs for parts of UK on World Cup final weekend. Still a long way off but will be interesting if it comes off.

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 10:16 (seven years ago)

I never understand how people remember the weather in previous years. I've already apparently even forgotten that we had a bad spring.

― Alba, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 11:01 (seven years ago)

this is fucking terrible, was really enjoying it when it seemed like summer wouldn't break 70 degrees

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 14:51 (seven years ago)

greetings from Miami!

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 14:53 (seven years ago)

new york is miami today

― supreme court justice samuel lance-ito (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:08 (seven years ago)

Miami's cooler because of the sea breeze. And even so.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:09 (seven years ago)

it's the same from miami to toronto

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:20 (seven years ago)

(was yesterday, at least)

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:20 (seven years ago)

i love summer. heat waves can be tough but there is something exhilarating about them

― marcos, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:30 (seven years ago)

you seem to have confused "exhilaration" with "expiration"

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:35 (seven years ago)

It’s the goddamn U.A.E. outsiders DC right now

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:55 (seven years ago)

So wait it’s actually not humid in DC for once?

― devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:00 (seven years ago)

Sunday my block was so quiet it was eerie. Everyone either at the beach or indoors, apparently--it's usually noisy and extremely social with kids, ppl walking, gardening, parking, going to the store, etc, but on Sunday there was no sound at all, barely even any traffic noise. Which if you know Brooklyn is a shocking state of affairs.

On the other hand I took a cab (don't ask) down Atlantic yesterday and drove right past a car ON FIRE on Franklin Avenue, with various loud "WHOMP!" explosive sounds coming from it periodically. So that was exciting.

― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:03 (seven years ago)

Please tell us you went “holy shit; piiissssss” as you passed the flaming vehicle

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:18 (seven years ago)

I have to admit I have 0% clue what that's a reference to.

― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:21 (seven years ago)

Oh right for some reason you aren’t 77ated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:43 (seven years ago)

It's thundering outside but there's no rain, just blazing heat.

― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:09 (seven years ago)

I'm on 77 I've just never seen that clip before? Anyway tx

― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:24 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Just got back last night from Ibiza, where it's been 29 to 31 degrees every day for the past 14 days.

Now I'm sitting at home, looking forward to it becoming 35 degrees or some such...

I CAN'T DO ANYTHING!!

― Mark G, Monday, 23 July 2018 13:30 (seven years ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/climate/india-heat-wave-summer.html

― niels, Monday, 23 July 2018 14:25 (seven years ago)

high yesterday here in Austin was 106F/41C... today it's supposed to hit 108F/42C. day seven of 100+ temps... like In Orbit noted upthread, I went for a walk just after sunset yesterday and the college campus was like a ghost town

― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 23 July 2018 14:35 (seven years ago)

Air conditioned office FTW but every time I went outside it was like walking into a bakery or maybe a steel mill. Unfortunately I don't sleep in an air conditioned office, so mainly I don't sleep.

― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Monday, 23 July 2018 18:15 (seven years ago)

about to bike home, it's 110 outside... wheeee

― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 23 July 2018 22:34 (seven years ago)

the abundance of butterflies is something I could really get used to, its delightful. The dragonflies seem HUGER this year as well, practically meganeura sized they seem, after I'm heat exhausted and had 3 rapid pints of Staropramen I feel like taking on these dragonflies - one on one, no blades you dive-attacking bastrds!

― calzino, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:02 (seven years ago)

heatwave declared a natural disaster, in the past 4 days haven't left my apartment for more than 20 minutes

― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:05 (seven years ago)

that sounds a bit too damn hot!

― calzino, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:07 (seven years ago)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-44935152
it's that 35+ with high humidity. stay hydrated.

― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:23 (seven years ago)

Smells stormy around here

― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:06 (seven years ago)

maybe AC should be banned in places where it's less than 30 degrees anyway? wonder how much it contributes to the problem it's supposed to solve

― niels, Thursday, 26 July 2018 06:40 (seven years ago)

I’ve read material of paved roads matters more as well as cars using a/c but you can never stop cars from using a/c

Less cars on the road maybe?

― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 26 July 2018 07:29 (seven years ago)

Was caught in the rain today but that was good because of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosmin

― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:02 (seven years ago)

it is no wonder that those in the village of Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh, India, have been bottling the scent of rain for thousands of years. In a recent article of the Atlantic, Cynthia Barnett describes how the post-monsoon earth are collected, steam-distilled for six to seven hours, and fixed in sandalwood oil in order to produce mitti attar — Earth’s perfume.

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:10 (seven years ago)

looking forward to Earth's perfume tonight---37 today in Paris but storms rolling in tonight.

the Paris métro people explained that they're not going to add AC because the exhaust is hot air and it would just heat the tunnels & quais in place of the trains. Are metros in other major cities air conditioned, and if so, how do they deal with this?

― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:15 (seven years ago)

Delhi and Caracas for sure. London, partly with upgrades planned for 2030. I think Delhi has vents for hot air but I am not sure how it works tbh.

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:19 (seven years ago)

A couple of tube lines are air conditioned but most of it isn’t - I’m not sure if it’s even possible to do for all lines?

There was widespread derision at the central line twitter (central line is one of the hotter ones) saying this the other day:

Hi, we're aware of the heating issues. We've made improvements to the ventilation systems on the current fleet. New trains are coming in early 2030, under the Deep Tube Upgrade Program which will be delivered with full air cooling systems. Thanks, Sol
— Central line (@centralline) July 23, 2018

― gyac, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:20 (seven years ago)

Yes, I think Delhi might have a similar air cooling system, tbh. Air is vented, cooled and recirculated rather than just being expelled.

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:28 (seven years ago)

xp at least they're coming in early 2030 in time for summer

― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 28 July 2018 09:12 (seven years ago)

Lol as if the london underground won't be Metro 2033 by then.

Or possibly Arthur Lowe and family chuntering around the circle line like in A Bed Sitting Room

― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 28 July 2018 09:17 (seven years ago)

When a long legged lovely walks by
And you can see by the look in her eye
That it's gonna be
HAHT in the city, HAHT in the city, tonight

― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 28 July 2018 09:19 (seven years ago)

feel like that central line tweet should have ended with as you were

― niels, Saturday, 28 July 2018 09:32 (seven years ago)

down to 16 degrees c up here today with patchy rain and a breeze that seems arctic by recent standards, can't even remember if i've got a coat.

― calzino, Saturday, 28 July 2018 09:36 (seven years ago)

26 in Paris which feels like winter tbh

― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 28 July 2018 11:38 (seven years ago)

Wore a jacket on the one mile walk into town this morning. Took it off on the walk back though.

― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Saturday, 28 July 2018 11:55 (seven years ago)

Yes, jacket back on today.

― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 July 2018 11:56 (seven years ago)

two years pass...

Just to let you know, I can stand it this hot, I can do plenty.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 07:21 (five years ago)

one year passes...

Today, not so good

― Mark G, Friday, 17 June 2022 14:28 (three years ago)

It's been close to 100F for the last week or two in much of the US. We don't have a working air conditioner in the trailer right now (electrical problems that my husband's in no condition to work on), just fans, so I repaired an old space cooler we had and put it into the bedroom.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 17 June 2022 15:19 (three years ago)

Things are more chilled in Newcastle now. I feel less crap today for a number of reasons, and now I just feel a bit pollensneezy.

― Mark G, Saturday, 18 June 2022 11:30 (three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Hit 110F/43C in Austin today, supposed to be hotter tomorrow... they're warning there might be rolling blackouts.

― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 11 July 2022 04:30 (three years ago)

See, we were in Majorca 2 weeks ago, and even though it was as hot there as it is here, now.. there was no pollen/hay fever so it was great.

― Mark G, Monday, 11 July 2022 06:39 (three years ago)

Living in mortal fear of the AC shitting the bed. Not for any particular reason, just my brain deciding it's a new thing to be anxious about while temps are 105+.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 11 July 2022 07:19 (three years ago)

also my new electricity plan that is exactly double the rate of the one I signed up for last July kicked in on 7/5 so it's an idle curiosity how many hundreds of dollars it will be this month

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 11 July 2022 07:21 (three years ago)

This is a rare opportunity for the UK and US members of Ilxor to suffer together, because here in the UK the temperatures are approaching thirty degrees centigrade! That's eighty-six degrees in Fahrenheit. And when I say "here in the UK" I mean "in London and the South of England".

And also Bournemouth. Whenever there's a burst of heat the Daily Mail sends a photographer to Bournemouth to photograph attractive people in their swimwear. Or they pick images from the news agencies of attractive people in their swimwear, in Bournemouth. I've been to Bournemouth in real life and I always associate it with heroin, not attractive people.

Because that's where I go to buy heroin! No, I'm joking. I was actually channelling Mark Prindle a little bit there. Apologies to Mark Prindle. In my life I've visited Seville and Hong Kong in similar temperatures and the only practical advice I can give - beyond the fact that you get used to it - is keep you hands out of your pockets with your fingers spread. Hang them by your side, like miniature radiators. It probably doesn't help much but it can't hurt.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 11 July 2022 17:38 (three years ago)

I am in the southeastern U.S. (Atlanta, Georgia to be specific), and we've had pretty standard heat this summer--mid 80s to mid 90s Farenheit (roughly 29-35 Celsius), high humidity. We do seem to be getting more rain than usual.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 11 July 2022 17:43 (three years ago)

One thing that separates us is electricity. We don't have air conditioning in the UK so the only thing that eats electricity is the refrigerator. It's not a huge factor. In the US everybody has air conditioning. The same was true in Hong Kong. I remember getting the bus to Victoria Peak partially to see Hong Kong but also because the buses are air-conditioned. Shops are air-conditioned in such a way that there's a blast of cold air on the pavement when you walk past them. Perhaps it's meant to entice you in. I remember seeing a film at the cinema and the temperature was uncomfortably cold.

I also remember thinking "is it like this in Singapore and Japan and all across China and India etc, and if so what impact is that going to have on the environment?" I grew up with science fiction so the idea of living on a metal planet covered in skyscrapers with a giant heatsink that spews hot air into orbit isn't so bad, but how are we going to evacuate heat into space? Vacuums aren't conductive.

Seville on the other hand had narrow, tall streets, made of stone, with shades:
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/seville-spain-sept-th-shadow-curtains-street-protecting-tourists-harsh-sun-heat-which-common-summer-southern-158938631.jpg

On the surface its cute, but it raises the question of whether it would be more practical to cover the streets with a second layer of streets, as in The Caves of Steel.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 11 July 2022 17:43 (three years ago)

It's even hot up here in Edinburgh! Admittedly with a stiff breeze howling off the Firth of Forth to keep things sensible.

― and who is not flawed? (Matt #2), Monday, 11 July 2022 17:45 (three years ago)

I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles. It's remarkable how much more livable the ocean makes that city.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 11 July 2022 17:47 (three years ago)

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