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sure, you can take 10 degrees from me free of charge if you collect. i'll even throw in some haribo in keeping with tradition
It's too hot :(
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23.5c in the house in Bristol. One advantage WFH is that in the morning I make sure all the curtains on the sunny side of the house are drawn, then when the sun moves to the other side of the house during the day, I close all the curtains/blinds on that side and open the others. It amuses me to hear neighbours complain how hot it is indoors when they effectively turn their house into a greenhouse!
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And the existence of other places that also have high humidity suddenly means that it doesn't make high temperatures uncomfortable?
It gets close to 50 degrees in the Sahara sometimes, therefore it's not ever hot in the UK? Is this the line of reasoning we're going with?
To be fair, we have some of the most varied and changeable weather in the world. Five air masses (I think) meet over the UK so our obsession with talking about the weather (in general, as a nation), isn't really all that strange. If you read into it Britain really is quite rare in how changeable it is, Japan is similar in that regard. We don't have huge extremes, but we do have a significant, regular and hard to plan around variation, so I understand people complaining. Some people never truly settle with our weather conditions
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you are also failing to consider the love we British have of complaining. Nothing gets us going like a strongly worded letter to a crap newspaper.
I actually look forward to the weather headlines in the Daily Express. They never fail to deliver the pinnacle of over exaggeration
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I actually look forward to the weather headlines in the Daily Express. They never fail to deliver the pinnacle of over exaggeration
No-one does it better than Nathan Rao!
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Same
Turned the air con off in my office at 4 and forgot to turn it back on.
That's with all the blinds down.
And it thinks 38.6c is comfortable, I think that thermometer is broken
What makes the heat worse in the UK is the wall insulation, great for the winter but horrific in the summer as the heat just can't get out quick enough.
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29c tomorrow! Is there no end to it? Someone make it go away! Its so damn hot even the fan isn't having much effect the windows are wide open workmen are still outside fixing the water main if they think they're going to carry on all night they've got another thing coming someone will have words theres people with young kids in this block I can't imagine how they're feeling right now the generator is so loud I can't hear myself think.
According to the Weather App on my phone, Rotherhithe, (SE London), calls for a max of 17c this Friday, with a minimum of 12c, heavy rain and a moderate breeze.
I am scheduled to have a blood test at Guy’s Hospital that day, normally I’d amble over to the bus stop and watch for a 47 or a 381, on Friday I may be watching for a yellow light, spelling out TAXI.
As far as I’m concerned, 17c is Moscow weather.
because it is never actually thst humid in the UK? Try going to th US East coast in summer, much hotter and much more humid.
TheUK hest is actually relatively a dry heat, just not at as dry as places like a desert, which are exceptions.
I am up in west Yorkshire this week, glorious but Havnt felt umcomftable yet, going to try near water today, Pugneys water park or newmiller dam maybe, bore some local women with my, I live from Cornwall line, will check in with a screenshot later 
Not really, but regardless of whether it is hotter elsewhere the UK is not set up for high heat. Our buildings are generally designed to trap heat and few houses have air con, it makes it quite unbearable even in modest heat.
And it thinks 38.6c is comfortable, I think that thermometer is broken
What makes the heat worse in the UK is the wall insulation, great for the winter but horrific in the summer as the heat just can't get out quick enough.
In theory insulation should also work in reverse and prevent heat building up too quickly - think of how warm it gets in a shed or your roof space where it rises rapidly.
One big issue though is solar gain - in a glazed room without adequate protection it will flood in rapidly.
But - like all things, the internal area will equalise with the external temp given time, and the insulation as you say will then slow down the loss once the external temp starts to drop.