too effing hot

I am frankly enjoying this on some level tbf. The trauma of Montreal winters stays with you forever.

― pomenitul, Thursday, July 25, 2019 9:55 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have the opposite reaction. I remember a couple of years ago after a particularly brutal hot and humid summer that I was walking around in December in -20C weather and really appreciating how great the cold air is.

Anyway, getting thirtysomething temps starting this weekend. Probably not as bad as Europe but the high humidity we get here is a killer.

fwiw it's 90% humidity here at the moment. at least the temperature has dropped a bit and thunderstorms are on the way (just thunder and lightning so far, must still be quite far away from where I am)

v glad I worked from home today!

The Dutch can't seem to put away their shawls, sweaters and jeans even in 37c weather. At least in my part of Amsterdam. It is extremely baffling and kind of unnerving.

Hottest day on record in Nederland today, 41.7 (107) degrees.

Some RER B trains have AC but yeah even in normal summer weather at rush hour it can be a sauna on there.

21h and still 40 degrees

Anyway, getting thirtysomething temps starting this weekend. Probably not as bad as Europe but the high humidity we get here is a killer.

Yeah, in Montreal at least, when you hit 36 it seems less brutal than 42 in Paris but it's even less bearable on account of the overwhelming humidity.

in my dumb kansass years we’d hit 42 in the summer but like Paris today, without much humidity. In dumb florida it’d be 33 but 90% humidity. That was way worse than this. I hear there are places where you get 40+ and high humidity and despite my taste for travel those are places I want to avoid.

40+ and high humidity

Pretty sure I'd change my tune if I lived in such a place.

Hi from such a place!

Sorry guys the hot breeze just floats my boat. What can I say

Never felt such humidity while it was raining earlier. Surreal and frustrating.

a UK friend of mine just bought an portable air conditioner. this is the first time i've heard of anyone i know there doing this.

this might belong on Things you were shockingly old when you learned but I just figured out why relative humidity conveys less information about how humid it feels than dew point:

Dew point vs. humidity

after a few weeks with highs steadily in the upper 90s, we're getting a cool spell in Georgia ... this afternoon it's a delightful 86 F and only 37% humidity (dew point 53 F)

Extreme air-conditioning, Singapore style.

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— Irène DB (@UrbanFoxxxx) July 25, 2019

it was in the 30s one time so far this summer here and i found it unbearable. had an awful night's sleep

I don't mind these heatwaves in small doses myself, but it is a nightmare when you have a young adult with autism in the house. He has been unsettled and attacking staff at the school where the AC system didn't work today apparently and I've just had my first shirt ripped at the neck in probably about a year, which previously occurred during the heatwave last year. Might need to look at one of these portable AC units.

Really love it myself in London at the moment. I’m having a relaxing evening on the Southbank. But it does help to have elements of the day under control, such as being able to walk into work and back, and not having to use the tube or bus.

Ugh. Why is it still so hot? I have three fans going and it’s still just awful.

Lol sorry. I’m clearly not built to be in this kind of heat without AC.

totally got lied to by the met office - didn't hear one solitary crack of thunder tonight:(

Hottest day on record in Nederland today, 41.7 (107) degrees.

― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Thursday, July 25, 2019 8:51 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

It was a solid 40.7 (not 41.7), but yeah. There's a nice breeze out but it's just more warmth, really. I'm lucky the coolest place of my whole house is the bedroom (it's the lowest place of the house).

I had a portable aircon unit that I sold earlier this year and God I could do with it now. Just cannot sleep in this.

I don't mind these heatwaves in small doses myself, but it is a nightmare when you have a young adult with autism in the house. He has been unsettled and attacking staff at the school where the AC system didn't work today apparently and I've just had my first shirt ripped at the neck in probably about a year, which previously occurred during the heatwave last year. Might need to look at one of these portable AC units.

― calzino, Thursday, 25 July 2019 21:06 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i work with teenagers with autism and its summer scheme at the moment (which i don't work for) and i can only imagine what its like in that school (no airconditioning, glass-lined corridors, no shade in the playgrounds) and the effect it must be having on everyone there.

Have you looked into renting an a/c, just an idea (i did a bit of research and its still incredibly expensive, but more infinitely more affordable than buying and maybe more useful than the consumer grade ice+fan units that are apparently v noisey and consequently potentially v triggering) idk if you could get a trades discount also?

I was looking at some reviews last night and was thinking that perhaps £400+ is a lot for something you might only need for a couple of days of the year and it might not even be that good a product and it might require some maintenance.. new parts etc... And then I gave up. The school will have AC working again today apparently, it's sod's law that it broke down on the worst possible day... he has a LA funded place in a private NAS school so they are very well resourced.

the decent looking AC units are in the "if you have ask the price..." category. Sometimes just a good old fashioned fan does the trick, but that depends on his mood because sometimes the noise can be triggering ... but infuriatingly sometimes he will blast out loud youtubes ...of noisy fans on his ipad!

lol so annoying! kids!

the school i work for is incredibly well resourced but there's an infuriating lack attention given to the building. they built a new extension a few years ago with an incredibly echoey staircase that all the children need to use at approximately the same time. Even if you meet someone there when there's no kids around and stop to ask them something, you both need to yell in order to be heard over the extreme echo. I can't imagine sound dampening pads would be *that* expensive, especially compared with some of the vanity projects the head spends money on, but people have been raising it for years as urgent and it gets nowhere. not saying this is anywhere like the situation at your son's school though.

Future heatwave tip: I managed to cool down enough to sleep by holding a frozen water bottle against pulse points (bend of arm, back of knees, inside wrist) which brought near-immediate relief.

bcz i'm obsessed with thunderstorms (and blitzortung's little clicks and flashes) -- and bcz this has been a semi-emergency* worth preparing for, i've been following the "london weather" page fairly closely for several days and it's actually really interest for substantially the predictions have been changing hour by hour.

greater heat of course means greater energy pumped into the weather system, which makes it more volatile = quite unexpected systems (such as massive thunderstorms) developing very fast, much faster than we're used to in the UK? i don't know enough abt weather science (=anything at all) but i've been wondering if the current dynamic is making the met's routine job (=basically saying if it's going to rain or be sunny tomorrow) a lot harder, bcz the swerves are becoming more sudden and extreme, especially for a country that's historically (and lol smugly) temperate

*semi only in the sense that it's a foretaste

Agree with this last

also i was out on the town in the heat with friends last night and i have to say the genuine unsung heroes of london public transport are the people who remember to bring old-school hand-held fans (the paper ones with wooden ribs) out with them, bcz they help cool everyone near them

two great things about hand-held fans: they are the only sustainable source of cooling in 2019 and if they're elaborately patterned and/or painted they'll make your corpse look more attractive when you drop dead of heat exhaustion in the middle of the high street

lol i nearly added a line to say "bg to the thread in 10 to point out that the wood and paper industries are why the world is on fire and getting worse" it's like i don't know you at all dude

i contain multitudes

but for real though you can make fans from recycled paper and recycle old fans, so it's vastly more sustainable than firing up the aircon to burn fossil fuels to ameliorate the effects of fossil fuels

our house slept with two fans on last night tho, i am the problem i face

My hand fan is wooden slats, cloth fan.

and one of those fans arrived as a same-day amazon delivery lol we're all gonna die

Many x-posts to calzino: I used to look after kids with special needs in the summer, but it was Scotland in the 90s - I think there were only one or two days when it was Hot, and the whole atmosphere of the group was so fed up and testy. I can imagine it’s a lot of work.

I can only imagine how people with autism experience oppressive heat, but as we don't get much time to acclimatise to these type of conditions, it's often going to be a literal meltdown trigger for them.

I think yesterday was the high-point of summer and now it's fading, might not break 30 again

Evenings are drawing in rapidly.

LOL rain.

yep this weekend we have a forecast of sustained rain and sub 20° temperatures with about 80% humidity, almost perfect.

having reached 23 last night we were finally able to open windows this morning but only for a few hours and it hit 32 again today so it's hot inside once more. but the rains will arrive soon thankfully; and models indicate that August, at least into week 3, will not be hot, so I am optimistic once more.

It’s a v comfortable 25 degrees and sunny here now, beer garden weather 😎 everyone already moaning that summer is over because that’s what Brits like to do whenever summer isn’t over but I’m happy with mid, high 20s and sunshine for weeks - don’t need it to always be 30+

(I know I’m on the wrong thread but as stated we have no I love weather)

Car registrations, the city vehicle fleet, and VMT are all way up under @BilldeBlasio so if you’re wondering why it’s so unbearably hot in the city, that’s part of the reason. https://t.co/p79bLTYFqb

— Doug Gordon (@BrooklynSpoke) August 21, 2019

so bad and hated

happy 90 (feels like 95) degrees in new york on *checks date* october 2

autumnal indefinitely after the rain, they say

yeah i'm glad this is the last heatwave

Fucking freezing here.