too effing hot

here's one

I Love Mass Transit

thank you

Living in an always somewhat cooler northern part of a country where the national prediction/temperature is forever worse than it is up here, even I am bracing myself for the upcoming 35/37 degrees coming up on Wed/Thurs. Would be a record by quite some margin but it seems like it is really happening this time. :(

Everything's back to normal in Toronto; next few days 25-30°.

shorts on, fans on, I want a siesta

“If only someone could explain why LA’s bus ridership is going down” pic.twitter.com/bbZbnEucAO

— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) July 23, 2019

*considers going up to London on Thursday for demo*

*sees it may be pushing 40 degrees on thursday*

I just gave the building super $200 in an envelope for switching out my ancient AC for a newer model last week, which is the most New Yawk thing I've ever done as a tenant here.

here in the heart of the city the overnight low was 27
still on course for 42 tomorrow, "only" 39 today
this heat wave is really something historic I think

It was 62º/17º in freaking Arkansas this morning. In late July.

Not complaining, but something ain't right.

It's intense, but I like the dog days even more now that I've gotten acquainted with the sheer monotony of English weather.

xp

our forecast high for saturday is 22, so a 20 degree (celsius) drop in highs over 2 days.

sorta reminds me of spring in texas, ugh

An all-time record for Holland today (39º), and expected to be bettered tomorrow.

yeah I saw that our horror has leaked into the lowlands too, what an abomination
the air today is disgusting: it's unnaturally bright, with a greenish tint.
and our AQI isn't even that horrid today, 72 in my arrondissement (the most polluted in the city). but compared to like Santiago Chile (144 AQI right now), Sao Paolo (141) or Delhi (132) it's paradise here.

I just gave the building super $200 in an envelope for switching out my ancient AC for a newer model last week, which is the most New Yawk thing I've ever done as a tenant here.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 23, 2019 11:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

loooool this is totally how Christopher operates every day. Need something done? Give the guy a "crispy" and *poof* it's handled.

Red alert in 20 French departments, including l'Île-de-France. 41 tomorrow is going to be brutal…

42 in paname non ? C’est l’enfer

42, you're right. I'll try to spend the day at the library…

I'm just not leaving the apartment. as bad as it is inside (26 right now), just getting anywhere else, even the airconned ligne 2, would be worse.

Have to work in Soho (London) tomorrow, dreading getting the Cental Line *all* the way from Tottenham Ct Rd to Epping in scorching heat at the end of the day's rush, I think I might just wait until after 7pm and see, lived in London for 26 years and can't honestly recall it ever forecast as high.

probably gonna be a lot of breakdowns around this time tomorrow - trying to work out if I can rentabike all the way home in constant shade

Austin is bizarrely cool and dry, it feels like the end of the world in July

paris public trans holding up ok today but on the non airconned lines (most of them) it's no doubt infernal.

my uni sent out a mail saying we should be drinking a glass of water every 15 minutes to keep hydrated!

Getting the train down to Kent tomorrow...or am I?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/24/uk-commuters-warned-to-avoid-rail-travel-on-heatwave-thursday

I’m am so glad I take the bus and not the tube to work but even the bus is brutal right now. Ugh.

I know that Europe hasn’t needed AC historically blah blah blah but it does now and this is pretty ridiculous. I honestly can’t believe the tube isn’t air conditioned at this point.

lunchtime footy was very pleasant today

Two of my coworkers don’t have fans in their flats. I would die.

In Paris, it's aggravated by the "reduced" activity of most public transportation during the summer holiday (many lines are closed or with reduced service) + many of the streets under construction...
As a result public transportation is crowded and street traffic is heavy although half of the people have already left on holidays.

I’ve just experienced the bus... it’s hamman level !

if I wanted sauna I'd move to Finland
it's still gonna be 33 at midnight

That is indeed insane.

If your office doesn’t have functional aircon, will it be too hot to work in tomorrow?

At least in the uk, there is no maximum temperature according to h&s guidelines - I have unfortunately had cause to look this up even though most of my workplace is very well air conditioned

I don’t have a fan but I do have a freezer full of water bottles in various stages of frozen-ness, a tub of gazpacho in the fridge, ice cream, a folding hand fan and a spritzer bottle. Plus wine, lovely cold rosé.

We have AC at work (SE England) and I have a fan here at home. It's 30degC in here but humidity is low so it's manageable. I am drinking a lot of water throughout the day though. Tomorrow is forecast to be 35 but Friday is 23, and that is going to be interesting.

Right now on the Seine banks it’s getting better (but still pretty warm). Rosé does help !

I have one big glass of rosé left in the bottle and I’m saving it for a sleep aid.

Ahah wise move. If we survive tomorrow, the grand paris is ours !

Right now I’m officially drunk on a peniche. Tomorrow will be dreadful.

FYI blueberries are super cheap at the greengrocers’ stands in London right now, so I’m having a handful of blueberries on top of a scoop of Waitrose Duchy Organic vanilla ice cream RIGHT NOW. You won’t be sorry if you do the same.

there's room in the pacific northwest for all of you, as long as you don't mind the volcano(s)

been reading about yakhchāls, which are a sort of ice granary devised by persians way back in the day so they could freeze water in winter and keep the ice through summer. they also have wind funnel chimney towers apparently keeping them near freezing even in summer (?? in iran???)

i am on a bus, carrying a large heavy box, its unideal

picked the wrong day to shift a corpse m8

m8

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shift

yeah, exactly

look im not judgemental about kinks but in this heat thats just not an option

My first Summer living outside the US (Netherlands) and this European lack of AC is, right now, a fer real fer real learning experience. O|0

You picked a good first summer o'er here Capitaine! It's scorching. I'm up north so probably a bit better off than you (I'm guessing?), but good luck all the same. (Still not missing AC though)