It's too hot :(

Got a big clump coming at me - not seen anything yet but dogs nearby are going mad.

EDIT: Right as I posted it started in earnest.
 
There's an almighty lightning storm going on right now. Weird there's no rain or thunder to go with it!

Oof, scrap that, thunder's rolling in now. Constant flashes of lightning.
 
SDK^ said:
Exactly what ubersonic posted.

Here is the scientific answer

Fans do not produce cold air, they produce the sensation of colder air. There are two different phenomena at play depending on the air temperature.
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If the air temperature is less than ~24C, then the reason why the human body perceives it as colder with the fan on has to do with the air boundary layer: that is a thin layer of slow-moving air a few millimetres thick all over your exposed skin (this layer also gets thicker where you have body hair). This air layer effectively insulates your body. When it's windy, or when there is a fan on, this thin layer of slow-moving air is disrupted and your insulation is literally blown off by this fast-moving air, and you feel colder.

If the air temperature is above ~24C, your body increasingly needs to sweat to control its temperature. When you sweat, the water on your skin will evaporate: the heat required for evaporation is extremely large, so a small amount of water does a tremendous amount of bodily cooling and this is a very effective way of staying cool. Unfortunately, in such conditions the boundary layer described in the previous paragraph is an impediment to your body's attempts at cooling down, because the air next to your skin isn't moving. When there is a fan on, that boundary layer is disrupted and lots of fresh air comes in and evaporates water on your skin much faster, and consequently you feel much cooler.

Think when you are doing sports in hot weather e.g.hard running or cycling.
When you are moving you feel cooler than when you stop, even though the air temp is the same.
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Yes, thank you Mr. Fan, please throw your fast air at me.
 
dunker said:
so much lightning but not much thunder, just distant rumbles very strange.
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Loads of thunder here - not shake the house stuff but pretty substantial rumbles. Hope someone is getting good video as my camera isn't cutting it. Never seen it like this in the UK.

I'm in the middle of that patch between Sherborne and Shaftesbury - insane doesn't even cut it.

Looks like it is heading to Bath now.
 
last 2-3 days been insane here. Predicted 35C to come :(((

32C room temp at 10 past midnight.

When is there storms, sure need one, its no breeze or nothing, just intense heat.
 
Clov!s said:
Does get annoying people moaning about the heat, what's wrong with you lot?

Should be happy we are having such good weather.

The people moaning now about the heat will be the same moaning in 3 months when it's too cold.
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Nah its the heat lovers who tend to moan about been cold in september ;)

I love the winter, shame its so short now days tho.

You find sept/october too cold by the way?
 
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