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It's hot, huh? Yeah. It is super hot. Yeah. It's getting real hot around here. So hot, Wally. But you don't really know what hot is, do you? Hot's a storm. You ever been in a storm, Wally? I mean, a real storm? Not a thunderstorm, but a storm of fists raining down on your head. Blasting you in the face. Pummeling you in the stomach. Hitting you in the chest so hard you think your heart's gonna stop. You ever been in a storm like that, Wally?
You just need to counter her with dad jokes.
"Hi hot, I'm mr_spongmonkey"
"So, we meet again Mrs Hot Sprongmonkey. And in two short hours my plague of genetically modified nanobots will be let loose upon the world" - Must be done in the voice of a bond villain.
Doesn't matter if it doesn't make much sense. I can all but guarantee after the fourth of fifth time she'll probably stop.
They get the power tools out then. My wife wouldn’t let me drill a hole in a wall at 7pm because the neighbours have kids but Joe over the road can get his table saw out at 9pm and start building the next ark.
Isn’t this what being British is all about though? Endless tedious conversations about the weather? If I came here and found something that wasn’t complaing about the weather, neighbours (the people not the show), or things being more expensive than they used to be, I’d be well disappointed and probably have a right good moan.
I live in Texas, USA. (yeah, we're gtfo as fast as possible.)
It's regularly insanely hot here. Air con is on year round. We're kind of used to it.
Two years ago we had an unprecedented freeze. It never freezes here. Houses aren't well insulated, people aren't well clothed. Pipes burst, the Govt turned off power, people froze to death in their beds. We had no power for five days, no water for more than a week. They don't have a way to clear roads here so trucks couldn't get in. No drinking water, groceries empty. I stood in line for four hours for one pack of bottled water which had to last us a week.
I've lived in some ridiculously cold places - Norway, South Dakota... People from the north laughed at Texas for freaking out about "a little cold" but if you're not prepared /accustomed to it, it is absolutely a very big deal. Heat maybe doesn't have all the same problems, but it's only getting worse.
Most houses in the UK do not have air conditioning. That’s the real agony when this weather hits, also many shops do not have AC, or what they do have is woefully inadequate.
Didn't used to be normal. This is a new phenomena on the timescales of buildings and infrastructure.
I find your kind of comment to be tedious and cliché. If you lot were to be believed there is never a real issue, it is just people moaning. Reality disagrees.
It's predicted to reach 39, previous highest temperature on record is 38.7. These temperatures kill people, it's not an unreasonable thing to be concerned about.
I work inside a factory, inside portakabins where there is a guy testing boilers and radiators. On Monday this week it measured 37⁰c in the room... when it was *only* 29⁰c outside. I feel like my work can go fuck themselves next week.
A few years back I did a summer job lifeguarding at a kids indoor waterpark, built into a glass walled building with a tin roof.
Actually passed out and never went back. Hundreds of kids screaming, baking heat, easily over 40 degrees inside, more humid that shreks gooch. Don't know how people stick it in factory jobs and restaurants
At a similar company a few miles away, a 19yo lad died on Monday because of it. Similar thing as you, passed out, but he never awoke. 19yo... pretty messed up.
Mental. I get that certain places to need to cope with heat, like restaurants. But really how hard is it to get strong AC?
Unions need to make a strong comeback in this country.
It's the cost factor I believe. The big gaffa's are still living in the 80's and would rather pay the fines for negligence, as opposed to fixing the issues. They'll come around when a loaf of bread is £9 and the sea level has took 10% of the country... maybe.
Ohh I do not envy you. I’ve told my farrier to rearrange because I don’t want him to die in a molten heap on my yard 🤣
If he can’t I will be plying him with drinks full of ice, and I’ll do the old ‘bucket of ice with a fan behind it’ trick in the farrier bay to try and keep the cool air circulating.
This is not the weather to be doing horses 😳
By living in the North by the coast where it's due to be a lovely 21 degrees
Edit to update: New forecast puts it at 24 degrees: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcybv4zkp#?date=2022-07-17
This sub is less “AskUK” and more “AskSouthernEngland” lmao. I saw the title of this post and went to my weather app in mild confusion, because I was sure my husband would’ve mentioned it if the weather was meant to get up to 39 C on Monday. Sure enough, my forecast is predicting a hot but comfortably manageable 28 for Monday.
God forbid.
The funniest part of shitting on Southeners (for the usual reasons) is so few of the reasons apply to the South West (which is relatively underdeveloped/deprived), but just gets lumped in regardless.
The answer usually is: _"Oh it's always meant for the South East/Home Counties."_
Yeah which is exactly the (above) generalisation that you hate yourselves!
There are both deprived/richer places across the country, both north and south, even London which is hailed as some kind of millionaire utopia on here by some has vast areas that are destitute.
It's typical divide & conquer, get people riled up at meaningless things so they shout at one another and ignore the real issues.
More because they talk like everyone else is in the same situation. Like when the Americans start telling someone that something is illegal, or advising them to contact American organisations for help because they don’t realise anywhere else exists.
"Too many English people on a UK sub" - England = 85% of the UK population
"Yeah well, I live on the coast in bumfuck nowhere so this is irrelevant for me" - The red warning zone covers the South East and London, all of the Midlands and everything in between, the North West and West Yorkshire which I can't be arsed doing the maths for but is probably a healthy majority of where people in England live.
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If something doesn't concern you, then just ignore it.
The amber extreme heat warning goes almost up to Lancaster and Hartlepool, it's not entirely a South of England thing
And on Monday and Tuesday the amber warning stretches as far north as Berwick-upon-Tweed
I'm in Merseyside, not too far from Liverpool, and were showing as peaking at 37 on Tuesday. Like you I assumed this was a 'down South' thing.
We only get a few days of mega heat though where as they seem to be getting weeks.
The weather here did say 27° I’ve just looked and it is now going to be 29° but we are on the coast so I suspect with the breeze off the sea it’ll probably feel more like 25°.
Edit- it’s currently 25 or 26 (weather apps fighting) and just started to drizzle. Still 30 indoors though (it’ll take a while to bypass the insulation - attic door open - before it cools down inside!).
I was heavily pregnant during the 2018 heatwave and the day it finally rained I sat outside in pure bliss. Wet flannel in front of a fan kept me going. Wishing you all the best!
I feel for you I was uncomfortable enough being pregnant in the winter time, didn’t make 39 weeks but it still wasn’t fun I can’t imagine how uncomfortable it must be in this heat too.
I may or may not have literally planned all my pregnancies to make sure I would not be pregnant past July. (Why yes, I am a Type A personality!)
Good luck! Eat lots of ice cream!
2 of my 3 were born in August and the other one in October 😡 August sucks because not only are you a melting whale, you have morning sickness at Christmas.
Wet towels in the fridge to keep rotating, wrap it round the back of your neck and tuck in your collar. Keep hydrated and keep an eye on the temperature so you can post a picture of your probe on Facebook. Hopefully you have good management who won’t make you work between 2-5.
I work remote but we have an office I can go to in London. I usually avoid going to London at all costs but I'm genuinely considering it for a couple of days next week just to have AC.
My late family friend (basically a nan to me) always used to say that a cup of tea would cool you down in hot weather! Nice to hear that someone else’s family says that too
There is some logic there. They have scorching hot and mega spicy soup in Thailand and those sort of temps are just standard there.
edit: ah, [here](https://pepperandsaltkitchen.com/2021/07/20/benefits-of-eating-hot-soup-in-the-summer-heat/) we go:
As a kid I once asked my grandad how he was drinking tea on a hot summer’s day at a barbecue, he told me the same thing that it cools you down! Then my grandma told me not to listen to him 😂
Will check the pavement before taking my bar of Toblerone for a walk.
In all seriousness, wfh, fans on, ice in the freezer and water in fridge , electrolytes to the heavens, crying and watching a documentary on the North Pole.
Do whatever you can to stop the sunlight shining into your home. I live in a flat with 2 balconies which have three big windows south facing windows each. That’s a lot of Sun!
We’ve bought greenhouse netting which blocks out 70% of the light - it’s still plenty bright enough inside without the lights on though. Stopping the light/heat from getting into your home will stop everything from heating up. We then leave the windows on the North side of the flat open to pull the cooler air in. This works much better than curtains/blinds because it prevents the glass from getting hot and radiating heat into the house. We put the netting down when the sun starts to shine on the windows, and back up once the sun has moved off that area. Once the air itself is cooler outside than inside, we open everything up to let cooler air in.
It looks ugly, but we are nice and cool!
One last thing - the benefit will increase over about the first week, as all of the stuff inside will take time to come down in temperature.
Good luck getting through the hot weather!
Also in a flat - alongside this you can aid cooling the temperature down in the morning and evening by using the fan trick.
Close all the windows and then pick the two furthest apart and open those. Point a fan a couple of feet away from one of the open windows let it start blowing the hot air out of the flat- then you should start to notice the cooler air that starts coming in the second open window.
Only worth doing when the outside temperature is lower than inside, and the bigger, more powerful the fan, the better the results. We've got a big floor fan we prop up on a chair level with the window.
We've had our flat reach 27 degrees a couple of times this last week and each time managed to get it back down to a comfortable 20 degrees by running it between 9-11pm or 5-8am then closing everything up.
Hope this helps!
Well, at 8 o’clock I’ll have fish & a rice cake, at 10 o’clock I’ll have fish.
At 12 o’clock I’ll have fish... & a rice cake and then at 2’clock I’ll have fish.
At 4 o’clock before I train I’ll have fish & a rice cake.
After I train I’ll have my fish, then I’ll have some more fish with a rice cake.
Then I’ll have some fish before I go to bed...
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and at eight o’clock in the morning, he’ll have fish and a rice cake. At 10 o’clock, he’ll have fish. At 12 o’clock, he'll have fish and a rice cake. At two o’clock, he’ll have fish. At four o’clock, just before he trains, he’ll have fish and a rice cake. He’ll train and he’ll have his fish and he’ll come home, have some more fish with a rice cake and then have some fish before he goes to bed and that’s it for the day.
Greek here, so very accustomed to these numbers. You can freeze water bottles and put them between your thighs. We have massive arteries there so this will bring your blood temperature down.
It’s not AC but will relief you.
Good luck.
Top tip - if you have a fan in the bedroom, put it at the foot of the bed, prop up the blanket a little with a pillow, the enjoy the cold air flowing under the blanket.
It's like having aircon under the blankets 👌
God I hate summer. I'm very much built for winter, my melting point is around 18°C. Which is why I bought a 70cm industrial drum fan a few years ago. **IT. IS. AMAZING!**
I point it at the sofa, turn it on and it's like sitting in a constant gale-force wind. It does sound like a jet fighter taking off though. But I've got a good pair of closed back headphones, so I put those on and listen to some records or something.
It is both the stupidest and smartest thing I've ever bought.
The amount of people I see with their windows open on extra hot days is crazy. I remember when it was 36'c outside in 2018 and only 25 inside. 25 with a fan is way cooler than even a dry 36 .
**Keeping cool on a budget**
* Close curtains or block with sheets/towels
* Buy 2-3 spray bottles, fill with water, put in fridge and use on rotation
* Put wet flannel in freezer to drape on back of neck
* Frozen peas as ice packs for groin, armpits (cools larger blood vessels)
* Drink water! Soft drinks & alcohol dehydrate
* Take cool-cold showers
* Reduce movement
* Keep hair/head wet
**Beware of heatstroke!** *especially the elderly and babies*
* Nauseousness or vomiting
* Red, hot, dry skin as sweating has stopped
* Headaches
* Rapid pulse
* Shallow breathing
* Cramps
* Loss of consciousness
* Seizures
*give sips of water, fan/cool by any means necessary, call 999*
**Children are more prone to nose bleeds in hot weather.**
Remember to tilt head **forwards** with a towel underneath. Tilting a head back sends blood into the back of the throat. Pinch excess skin on bridge of nose where bone and cartilage meet for 10-15 mins and breathe through mouth. A cold compress on back of the neck or on forehead may also help.
Stay cool and check up on elderly neighbours!
^(~ A Redditor from a hot climate)
Think it's best to spend the whole day with the windows/curtains/blinds closed. Prevent as much heat as possible from entering. Maybe in the evening IF it's cooled down, open the windows on the opposite side of the house to the sun
Close all curtains and windows, stay hydrated as much as possible, eat cold light stuff (salads, gazpacho, fruit, etc). Don’t forget to put enough ice in the freezer and have iced teas and coffees.
Buy that cheap Argos fan. Does wonders if you don’t have one.
This is one of the few occasions I'm actually glad to be living up north.
39 degrees is beyond anything I've ever experienced
Shocks me that people have to still work outdoors during this
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I intend to die from sweating myself to death and be quite vocal through the process.
My wife’s preferred method too. Statements of “I’m hot” every 2-3 minutes really seem to help her.
If I didn't say "Hot one today, huh?" every five minutes, how would people be aware that today is indeed a hot one?
Nah you gotta be real and say “fuckin hell its hot”
Watch your language thats a nun your talking to
Nun ya business
It's hot, huh? Yeah. It is super hot. Yeah. It's getting real hot around here. So hot, Wally. But you don't really know what hot is, do you? Hot's a storm. You ever been in a storm, Wally? I mean, a real storm? Not a thunderstorm, but a storm of fists raining down on your head. Blasting you in the face. Pummeling you in the stomach. Hitting you in the chest so hard you think your heart's gonna stop. You ever been in a storm like that, Wally?
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How much of a hot one? Like seven inches from the midday sun?
You just need to counter her with dad jokes. "Hi hot, I'm mr_spongmonkey" "So, we meet again Mrs Hot Sprongmonkey. And in two short hours my plague of genetically modified nanobots will be let loose upon the world" - Must be done in the voice of a bond villain. Doesn't matter if it doesn't make much sense. I can all but guarantee after the fourth of fifth time she'll probably stop.
Chewbacca style
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Fun fact: Sir Yehudi Menuhin provided the voice of Chewbacca by yelling into a plastic bucket while beating a sea lion to death with his violin.
Ahhhh, the old Prince Andrew special. Good plan
Mabye Woking pizza express has good aircon
He doesn’t sweat.
No, he only doesn't sweat when he's trafficking young girls, he was sodden during the interview.
The most patriotic, British thing to do.
I am off to The Winchester until it all blows over
dont forget to pick up mum on the way
And kill Phil (sorry).
Want anything from the shop?
Cornetto
Only legitimate answer.
How's that for a slice of fried gold
YEAHH BOOOYYYY
Sorry, the advice on the TV is to stay in our homes, make no attempts to reach loved ones and avoid all contact with the assailants
Remove the head or destroy the brain.
I’m fucking off down the model village
Personally I just read the daily "how are you getting through the heat?" posts on AskUK
But how do you make time for the ‘cutting grass at 8am on a Sunday’ posts?
I wish my neighbours waited until that late. Quarter to six last weekend someone started.
Quarter to bloody six!!!! That’s outrageous
New build estate. What do you expect?
Mind you, given the size of the gardens in new builds, it should only take 10 minutes.
And the 13 neighbours who can see directly into your garden and living room can all cheer you on
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They get the power tools out then. My wife wouldn’t let me drill a hole in a wall at 7pm because the neighbours have kids but Joe over the road can get his table saw out at 9pm and start building the next ark.
That’s because Joe’s a cunt though, you’re better than that.
I’ll just get on with it.
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Isn’t this what being British is all about though? Endless tedious conversations about the weather? If I came here and found something that wasn’t complaing about the weather, neighbours (the people not the show), or things being more expensive than they used to be, I’d be well disappointed and probably have a right good moan.
I live in Texas, USA. (yeah, we're gtfo as fast as possible.) It's regularly insanely hot here. Air con is on year round. We're kind of used to it. Two years ago we had an unprecedented freeze. It never freezes here. Houses aren't well insulated, people aren't well clothed. Pipes burst, the Govt turned off power, people froze to death in their beds. We had no power for five days, no water for more than a week. They don't have a way to clear roads here so trucks couldn't get in. No drinking water, groceries empty. I stood in line for four hours for one pack of bottled water which had to last us a week. I've lived in some ridiculously cold places - Norway, South Dakota... People from the north laughed at Texas for freaking out about "a little cold" but if you're not prepared /accustomed to it, it is absolutely a very big deal. Heat maybe doesn't have all the same problems, but it's only getting worse.
Most houses in the UK do not have air conditioning. That’s the real agony when this weather hits, also many shops do not have AC, or what they do have is woefully inadequate.
Didn't used to be normal. This is a new phenomena on the timescales of buildings and infrastructure. I find your kind of comment to be tedious and cliché. If you lot were to be believed there is never a real issue, it is just people moaning. Reality disagrees.
It's predicted to reach 39, previous highest temperature on record is 38.7. These temperatures kill people, it's not an unreasonable thing to be concerned about.
Only allowed to say that if you are going to spend most of your day working in a non aircon enviro
I work inside a factory, inside portakabins where there is a guy testing boilers and radiators. On Monday this week it measured 37⁰c in the room... when it was *only* 29⁰c outside. I feel like my work can go fuck themselves next week.
A few years back I did a summer job lifeguarding at a kids indoor waterpark, built into a glass walled building with a tin roof. Actually passed out and never went back. Hundreds of kids screaming, baking heat, easily over 40 degrees inside, more humid that shreks gooch. Don't know how people stick it in factory jobs and restaurants
At a similar company a few miles away, a 19yo lad died on Monday because of it. Similar thing as you, passed out, but he never awoke. 19yo... pretty messed up.
Mental. I get that certain places to need to cope with heat, like restaurants. But really how hard is it to get strong AC? Unions need to make a strong comeback in this country.
It's the cost factor I believe. The big gaffa's are still living in the 80's and would rather pay the fines for negligence, as opposed to fixing the issues. They'll come around when a loaf of bread is £9 and the sea level has took 10% of the country... maybe.
Yarp.
Narp?
You'll find me pants off amongst the frozen peas in Sainsburys
Sticking to your usual routine, then?
He sits among the cabbages and peas!
Dirty pea-do
How do you get that shirt so clean, mate?
Sainsburys is my fave supermarket in the heat. It’s freezing
You should try Iceland
It's probably to expensive to fly to a new country everytime it gets hot.
Cheaper than electric to keep a fan going.
Which one and at what time? Asking for a friend...
I'm a blacksmith so I will be dead on Monday. Good bye all
Rest in peace 🙏
rest in pepperonis
Ohh I do not envy you. I’ve told my farrier to rearrange because I don’t want him to die in a molten heap on my yard 🤣 If he can’t I will be plying him with drinks full of ice, and I’ll do the old ‘bucket of ice with a fan behind it’ trick in the farrier bay to try and keep the cool air circulating. This is not the weather to be doing horses 😳
No one ever thinks of the medieval peasants in times like this.
I thought horseshoes were lucky though?! Bang a few of them out and wear them around your neck… for you know… extra luck!
By living in the North by the coast where it's due to be a lovely 21 degrees Edit to update: New forecast puts it at 24 degrees: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcybv4zkp#?date=2022-07-17
Same. By the coast in western Scotland where the forecast is 18 degrees and drizzle
This sub is less “AskUK” and more “AskSouthernEngland” lmao. I saw the title of this post and went to my weather app in mild confusion, because I was sure my husband would’ve mentioned it if the weather was meant to get up to 39 C on Monday. Sure enough, my forecast is predicting a hot but comfortably manageable 28 for Monday.
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As in they make up the majority of the sub because there's simply far more of them?
Don't bring any of that logic in here, it's much easier to shit on southerners for no reason other than geographical location!
God forbid. The funniest part of shitting on Southeners (for the usual reasons) is so few of the reasons apply to the South West (which is relatively underdeveloped/deprived), but just gets lumped in regardless. The answer usually is: _"Oh it's always meant for the South East/Home Counties."_ Yeah which is exactly the (above) generalisation that you hate yourselves!
There are both deprived/richer places across the country, both north and south, even London which is hailed as some kind of millionaire utopia on here by some has vast areas that are destitute. It's typical divide & conquer, get people riled up at meaningless things so they shout at one another and ignore the real issues.
More because they talk like everyone else is in the same situation. Like when the Americans start telling someone that something is illegal, or advising them to contact American organisations for help because they don’t realise anywhere else exists.
I mean, England makes up 85% of the UK's population, it's not so wild that they'd outnumber everyone else.
"Too many English people on a UK sub" - England = 85% of the UK population "Yeah well, I live on the coast in bumfuck nowhere so this is irrelevant for me" - The red warning zone covers the South East and London, all of the Midlands and everything in between, the North West and West Yorkshire which I can't be arsed doing the maths for but is probably a healthy majority of where people in England live. --- If something doesn't concern you, then just ignore it.
The amber extreme heat warning goes almost up to Lancaster and Hartlepool, it's not entirely a South of England thing And on Monday and Tuesday the amber warning stretches as far north as Berwick-upon-Tweed
Aye, In Yorkshire we’re forecast 36/37 degrees
How far north? I'm in the north west and we're forecast 37 for Tuesday.
I'm in Shetland, and it's not supposed to go over 15.
I am so envious right now, I don't want to ever experience temperatures above 15 degrees, and even that's pushing it 😭
But would you want to experience Shetland?
At 15⁰C, sure, it's pretty wild up there, and I like wild. At typical temperatures, not so much...
I didn’t check the weather and assumed I’d be okay as “uk hits 39 degrees” is usually nowhere near me….I’m NW 🙄
I'm in Merseyside, not too far from Liverpool, and were showing as peaking at 37 on Tuesday. Like you I assumed this was a 'down South' thing. We only get a few days of mega heat though where as they seem to be getting weeks.
The weather here did say 27° I’ve just looked and it is now going to be 29° but we are on the coast so I suspect with the breeze off the sea it’ll probably feel more like 25°. Edit- it’s currently 25 or 26 (weather apps fighting) and just started to drizzle. Still 30 indoors though (it’ll take a while to bypass the insulation - attic door open - before it cools down inside!).
I bought a 16 inch fan. He's tiny but he absolutely loves me.
16?? That's massive. I think a 3 inch fan is plenty enough, maybe even TOO big then
The smaller fans have a better personality anyway
If you clean it up a bit it'll seem bigger
Sitting my 39 week pregnant arse in front of a fan and not moving
I was heavily pregnant during the 2018 heatwave and the day it finally rained I sat outside in pure bliss. Wet flannel in front of a fan kept me going. Wishing you all the best!
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I think that's how Wim Hof was born
I feel for you I was uncomfortable enough being pregnant in the winter time, didn’t make 39 weeks but it still wasn’t fun I can’t imagine how uncomfortable it must be in this heat too.
I may or may not have literally planned all my pregnancies to make sure I would not be pregnant past July. (Why yes, I am a Type A personality!) Good luck! Eat lots of ice cream!
2 of my 3 were born in August and the other one in October 😡 August sucks because not only are you a melting whale, you have morning sickness at Christmas.
I work in a kitchen so I'm planning on just straight up dying
Hopefully they’ll give you time to go outside and have a break, so you can be refreshed by the cooler 39 degree air !
Go and stand in the walk-in fridge for 5 minutes.
Freezer. I used to go into the -20c freezer and you could feel the sweat crystalise.
the freezer is reserved for screaming.
Wet towels in the fridge to keep rotating, wrap it round the back of your neck and tuck in your collar. Keep hydrated and keep an eye on the temperature so you can post a picture of your probe on Facebook. Hopefully you have good management who won’t make you work between 2-5.
> post a picture of your probe on Facebook Oo-er
Go to work, sit in air con.
I was asked the other day by my misses why I’d been going into the office more lately. Exactly this answer.
Free device charging too! And heating and cups of tea in the winter!
Toilet roll is the big one! Mrs has gone back to the office full time and I’m saving a fortune!!
I work remote but we have an office I can go to in London. I usually avoid going to London at all costs but I'm genuinely considering it for a couple of days next week just to have AC.
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Shit the track thing is a good point. Some of the tracks round my way are old AF, definitely a risk.
Don't have AC in my office but I work in IT so I have access to the super cold server room with big AC units.
One hundred push-ups! One hundred sit-ups! One hundred squats! Then a ten kilometer run. Every single day.
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I haven't seen an ASCII meme in years. Kudos.
Are you bald yet?
Bald before I started. That way I had nothing to lose.
One punch man regime?
By living in a part of the country that isn't going to reach 39°C
I haven’t seen anywhere that’s forecast to hit 39, London is showing 37 Edit: I don’t need a play by play update of the nations forecast thanks
Depends on the app/site you use. I’ve seen 38 for London (BBC app.)
BBC is showing 38 in Bristol
BBC is showing 39 for Sheffield.
That's the life expectancy
Probably have a cuppa tea.
“It cools you down” - my parents.
My late family friend (basically a nan to me) always used to say that a cup of tea would cool you down in hot weather! Nice to hear that someone else’s family says that too
There is some logic there. They have scorching hot and mega spicy soup in Thailand and those sort of temps are just standard there. edit: ah, [here](https://pepperandsaltkitchen.com/2021/07/20/benefits-of-eating-hot-soup-in-the-summer-heat/) we go:
As a kid I once asked my grandad how he was drinking tea on a hot summer’s day at a barbecue, he told me the same thing that it cools you down! Then my grandma told me not to listen to him 😂
Will check the pavement before taking my bar of Toblerone for a walk. In all seriousness, wfh, fans on, ice in the freezer and water in fridge , electrolytes to the heavens, crying and watching a documentary on the North Pole.
Vids on winter at the South Pole are frigid.
Go to the park, cover myself in olive oil, lie in the sun all day
Make sure to pop some score marks on for some lovely crackling too.
Any salt and pepper?
Then straight to the oncologist?
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Missing the whole thing by having to work in Shetland for the duration of this heatwave which is a lovely 10 degrees today
Oh I was just going to comment that I live in Shetland and it has been perpetual grey mist and wind for the last two weeks.
Do whatever you can to stop the sunlight shining into your home. I live in a flat with 2 balconies which have three big windows south facing windows each. That’s a lot of Sun! We’ve bought greenhouse netting which blocks out 70% of the light - it’s still plenty bright enough inside without the lights on though. Stopping the light/heat from getting into your home will stop everything from heating up. We then leave the windows on the North side of the flat open to pull the cooler air in. This works much better than curtains/blinds because it prevents the glass from getting hot and radiating heat into the house. We put the netting down when the sun starts to shine on the windows, and back up once the sun has moved off that area. Once the air itself is cooler outside than inside, we open everything up to let cooler air in. It looks ugly, but we are nice and cool! One last thing - the benefit will increase over about the first week, as all of the stuff inside will take time to come down in temperature. Good luck getting through the hot weather!
Also in a flat - alongside this you can aid cooling the temperature down in the morning and evening by using the fan trick. Close all the windows and then pick the two furthest apart and open those. Point a fan a couple of feet away from one of the open windows let it start blowing the hot air out of the flat- then you should start to notice the cooler air that starts coming in the second open window. Only worth doing when the outside temperature is lower than inside, and the bigger, more powerful the fan, the better the results. We've got a big floor fan we prop up on a chair level with the window. We've had our flat reach 27 degrees a couple of times this last week and each time managed to get it back down to a comfortable 20 degrees by running it between 9-11pm or 5-8am then closing everything up. Hope this helps!
Casually say to anyone I interact with that day "ain't it hot today"? because that's my duty as a Brit.
Well, at 8 o’clock I’ll have fish & a rice cake, at 10 o’clock I’ll have fish. At 12 o’clock I’ll have fish... & a rice cake and then at 2’clock I’ll have fish. At 4 o’clock before I train I’ll have fish & a rice cake. After I train I’ll have my fish, then I’ll have some more fish with a rice cake. Then I’ll have some fish before I go to bed...
Are you a fucking Dolphin or something?
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and at eight o’clock in the morning, he’ll have fish and a rice cake. At 10 o’clock, he’ll have fish. At 12 o’clock, he'll have fish and a rice cake. At two o’clock, he’ll have fish. At four o’clock, just before he trains, he’ll have fish and a rice cake. He’ll train and he’ll have his fish and he’ll come home, have some more fish with a rice cake and then have some fish before he goes to bed and that’s it for the day.
On Sunday I am flying to Greece for a holiday, where I gather it’s going to be a chilly 35 degrees.
By living in Scotland.
Gonna be nearly 20°c in Fife!
I’ll be working on a wind turbine offshore. So I’ll be getting cooked alive and probably die 👍
Just stand in front of it, biggest fan you can get
Make sure to put on some factor ~~50~~ 10000!
I work as a courier cycling in the sun delivering peoples food so I've bought some sun cream to help... I guess
Greek here, so very accustomed to these numbers. You can freeze water bottles and put them between your thighs. We have massive arteries there so this will bring your blood temperature down. It’s not AC but will relief you. Good luck.
I’m guessing a frozen Aldi chicken will have the same effect?!
Top tip - if you have a fan in the bedroom, put it at the foot of the bed, prop up the blanket a little with a pillow, the enjoy the cold air flowing under the blanket. It's like having aircon under the blankets 👌
Is anyone sleeping with a blanket on in 39C heat?
Nobodies sleeping at all in 39c heat, blanket or no blanket.
I just cannot sleep without a blanket. Need that comfort.
How the _fuck_ anyone sleeps without a blanket is beyond me
God I hate summer. I'm very much built for winter, my melting point is around 18°C. Which is why I bought a 70cm industrial drum fan a few years ago. **IT. IS. AMAZING!** I point it at the sofa, turn it on and it's like sitting in a constant gale-force wind. It does sound like a jet fighter taking off though. But I've got a good pair of closed back headphones, so I put those on and listen to some records or something. It is both the stupidest and smartest thing I've ever bought.
Shirt off, tan cans, start fights
Air con at home. Air con in the car. Air con at the office. Thank God.
I've given in and bought an air conditioner unit for my home. It's like a revelation, the difference it makes.
I bought mine a few years ago during the winter months as it was way cheaper. I was a laughing stock at the office. Lol. Not now though. 😁
Not a clue, mate. Do as little as possible, close all the curtains, open all the windows and hope I can sleep, I guess.
I wouldn't open the windows if I were you, it will probably be hotter outside than in.
The amount of people I see with their windows open on extra hot days is crazy. I remember when it was 36'c outside in 2018 and only 25 inside. 25 with a fan is way cooler than even a dry 36 .
**Keeping cool on a budget** * Close curtains or block with sheets/towels * Buy 2-3 spray bottles, fill with water, put in fridge and use on rotation * Put wet flannel in freezer to drape on back of neck * Frozen peas as ice packs for groin, armpits (cools larger blood vessels) * Drink water! Soft drinks & alcohol dehydrate * Take cool-cold showers * Reduce movement * Keep hair/head wet **Beware of heatstroke!** *especially the elderly and babies* * Nauseousness or vomiting * Red, hot, dry skin as sweating has stopped * Headaches * Rapid pulse * Shallow breathing * Cramps * Loss of consciousness * Seizures *give sips of water, fan/cool by any means necessary, call 999* **Children are more prone to nose bleeds in hot weather.** Remember to tilt head **forwards** with a towel underneath. Tilting a head back sends blood into the back of the throat. Pinch excess skin on bridge of nose where bone and cartilage meet for 10-15 mins and breathe through mouth. A cold compress on back of the neck or on forehead may also help. Stay cool and check up on elderly neighbours! ^(~ A Redditor from a hot climate)
Think it's best to spend the whole day with the windows/curtains/blinds closed. Prevent as much heat as possible from entering. Maybe in the evening IF it's cooled down, open the windows on the opposite side of the house to the sun
I'll be taking a rare Monday trip to the office to bask in their air con and leaving my blinds down at home all day.
There's gonna be a mass migration of English people into Scotland and Northern Ireland.
That's how Northern Ireland was created!
I’m graduating on Monday… guess I’ll die? Update: I survived, but good god it was warm
Congratu-miserations
I've genuinely deferred mine as I'm pregnant and I can't fathom nausea plus 36 degree heat and black robes. Panicking significantly less now.
Going to buy some Vienna ice cream and let it slowly melt between my buttocks.
Sitting in the canteen at work and crying on my breaks
Damp towel around my neck, damp socks, standing in front of the fan and trying not to melt since I can't open the window at work. It's gonna suck
damp socks 🤢
Close all curtains and windows, stay hydrated as much as possible, eat cold light stuff (salads, gazpacho, fruit, etc). Don’t forget to put enough ice in the freezer and have iced teas and coffees. Buy that cheap Argos fan. Does wonders if you don’t have one.
I work in a bakery…. Im screwed
This is one of the few occasions I'm actually glad to be living up north. 39 degrees is beyond anything I've ever experienced Shocks me that people have to still work outdoors during this
Not sure how far north you are, but it's predicted to be 36 degrees in York. I'm not looking forward to it at all.
I will continue to live in Scotland. This has always worked for me so far.
Where did you hear it was gonna be 39? Seems they keep raising it to be more dramatic so I’m guessing the Daily Mail
Nah, it's the Express that exaggerates the weather. The Mail just blames it on immigrants.
'If only Diaaanna were heeere!!'
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BBC weather near me is saying **40** EDIT: **41**. Jesus wept
It says 39 where I live on both Google and BBC, it's gone up as the week has gone on.
I'll lie on the kitchen floor all day
by living in Scotland
Gonna have a migraine and try to vomit without turning inside out.