too effing hot

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.

Well I guess wait until October and see!

🙃

I think I must have heatstroke. I'm playing the new Bob Dylan album and actually liking it!

Hah, I'm listening to it right now and it kinda makes me wish I were reading a printout of its lyrics instead.

As for the UK 'heatwave', I don't miss experiencing at most a week of proper summery weather per year. What can I say, I'm a man of extremes.

the lyrics on I Have Multitudes are brilliant and I don't even like most lyrics, nor songwriters that much, especially bob fucking dyaln tbh!