too effing hot

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.

maybe the roaches and ants in my kitchen will go to Florida

freezing in LA!

Down to 4C in Paris tonight, it rules

The weather in Seattle is perfect, as it is 400 days a year

fping all of you chiming in about coolness

At least it's not this bad. Yet.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/oct/02/revealed-hundreds-of-migrant-workers-dying-of-heat-stress-in-qatar-each-year

92 in Brooklyn right now

hit 95 at jfk; the previous record was 85

Ya gotta love these 30 degree temperature swings in one day.

way more here; 55 this morning, so that's about 40

yeah it's actually chilly

Too-fucking-hot during a pandemic is a lot like too-fucking-hot the rest of the time--plus scarves.

it was quite warm today yes

blimey uk'ers

30 today!

It’s horrible

at least i dressed appropriately going to the shop, in my black iron maiden tshirt, black shorts, and thick black trainers.

Powering through on homemade mango lassis (mango purée, yoghurt, ice, teaspoon of sugar, dash of lime juice).

sounds delish. i have slightly flat ginger ale.

Bet we have a perfect UK summer weather-wise in this year of years.

Weather's been better than usual pretty much all through the lockdown.

Cannot imagine the physical or mental health of the nation if this had taken hold in, say, October.