too effing hot

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)

we must burn more fossil fuels to cool the planet which is heating at a terrifying pace because we burned fossil fuels

Ok yes that’s terrible but this is no fucking joke I almost threw up on the bus this morning.

This is definitely a bad day to be hungover... I'm not leaving my (cool) office today !
Going home will be a problem, though... I might order a uber or sometthing...

I was thinking of doing the same. I honestly don’t think I could hack public transport later. I think I’d die if I was hungover.

we must burn more fossil fuels to avoid outdoor exposure to the planet which is heating at a terrifying pace because we burned fossil fuels

(sorry, not helpful, just been enjoying a bit of a climate-change-related despair spiral over the last few days which i am unable to stop myself inflicting on others)

Trying to find a list of all the bus routes that have a decent cooling system like the 468 and dreaming of an app that not only tells you where your bus is but its on board top deck temperature in real time.

my central heating came on earlier! The power cut the other night had reset the heating controls to Auto mode from Off. I thought it was getting rather warm.

It got down to like 28 last night fuuuuuuuuck

it's already 36 & it's not even noon yet

Metro is ok (depending on the lines and if it's not too crowded).
Buses are impossible. I don't even know how the drivers can work in these conditions.

I’m due at a friend’s Christmas In July launch in about an hour - CiJ is a part of the PR calendar where a retailer’s Xmas season offering is made available to the press, and my friend’s event is for a very posh Yorks/Lancs/Cumbria food retailer. She never fails to launch on the actual hottest day of the year so I will be focused on getting my freebie punning tote bag (last year’s was UP HILL AND DOWN ALE) and not eating any mice pies. I will be eating ALL the smoked salmon though.

mice pies

we'll be lucky to find any mice at all when climate change really starts kicking in

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAUEG1JXUAUFEVe?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

what a life, I'm that posh even my dog has his own AC system!

Thank God for the haar. Take notes, humidity: this is moisture in air doing its job and keeping me cool.

This is madness. And I'm usually a fan (not punning btw).

My dog is a moron and won’t sit in front of the fan.

I get concerned Douglas might try licking the steel fan blade but so far he hasn't been that stoopid yet.

can't wait for the forecasted storms this evening. The other night was the best sturm and drang show I've experienced in years.

Hate mince pies enough that they might as well be mice pies LOL...

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this is fine

The haar has foresaken me.

Just tried to go out. It's insane even compared to yesterday.
It's definitely over 40 atm.
And the rare breeze is even warmer than the ambiant air !

Yeah this is fucking terrible.

I'm sheltering in my downstairs office at home, which is below street level and north facing. It's the only cool room in the house.

Thank God for public libraries.

Aren't they closed for holidays ?

It's like wearing a duffel coat I can't take off. And I think it's cooler here than in London. We at least have a very welcome breeze here.

I'm hoping the boss will tell us to go home early but I fear he's a hot weather person and has just got back from Spain anyway so this is probably all this_is_fine.gif to him.

(As I'm sure it is to many ilxors - my dislike of summer was not well regarded the year my body decided it hated heat and sunlight and sought its revenge in the form of painful rashes and migraines - thankfully it's not doing that yet this year but I will be sure to complain about it at tedious and TMI length on ILX when it does)

Oh that reminds me : in the metro this morning, there was a guy wearing a parka coat with the furry hood and all !
I guess he's dead now.

lol, undoubtedly.

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

I want to hear your complaining a passing spacecadet!
ban summer

wee bit of rain here in london (5 mins, drying again now)

this is always soothing to me:
http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=10