too effing hot

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...

https://media.giphy.com/media/xXvIkTu08XQLC/giphy.gif

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

50000 strikes the other night. i'm hoping for much more tonight and according to the bbc forecast it storms from 8 till midnight here.

Yeah, there's an "event" aspect to it, checking how high the temperature will rise (beating the historial record of 1947 !), talking about it with EVERYBODY you meet... + knowing it will be over by tomorrow.
Of course, that's because I don't have it bad compared those who really suffer from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyRqdzF8swY

I saw a few people in coats today. Seriously what the fuck? It’s ungodly hot out there. Oooh thunder!

I just asked a waiter what I can do for him. Heat rot is setting in.

https://i.imgur.com/aeKmQ1f.mp4

Not a fan.

Aw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIYAMisgDXQ

We had the highest recorded temperatures in the uk here today, we win. Like pom, I have the this is fine thought bubble as I’m just always gonna enjoy a heatwave, it’s how I was conditioned. Def sympathise with ppl who find it miserable

& also we’re all gonna die obv

We went years without A/C. During one heat wave one summer we started freezing wet washcloths, and then shaping them and wrapping them around our cat to keep her cool. She seemed to appreciate it.

I see a lot of people wearing coats during heat waves around here but my area is heavily populated by migrants who have to carry everything they own with them, and winter will be here soon enough.

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.

And the rare breeze is even warmer than the ambiant air !

Love the hot breeze tbh. Gimme that hot breeze

xp That's crazy. I spent most of the day with my feet in cold water, doing as little as possible apart from breathing (kinda).

Been out and about in black jeans and a mostly black band t-shirt like a tru ilxor

To make things even better, due to problems on the rails the whole RERB was disturbed at rush hour. The kind of times when each new train is so full no one can get in so with each train there’s more crowd waiting on the platform... And without AC of course. Nightmare to go home after a hard day, especially for those who have no choice but take this RER... (for that reason, ubers were unavailable in my area and I ended on cityscoot which was ok but still pretty hot when you’re in the sun... and the hot breeze was of no help !)

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

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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!