It's too hot :(

UTmaniac said:
Met Office for around Southampton tends to be reasonable several days ahead, but relatively poor on the day. Right now it thinks it's 20C here, but the local Wunderground station literally up the road is reading 28C (which feels far closer to the truth after popping out briefly a while ago).
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Yes and the Met Office app is consistently giving a higher max temperature for the current day when I open it in the evening vs when I open it in the morning. You'd think they would have noticed by now that they're "a bit out" every day
 
Weather station sender out the back under open cover is showing 33C - One at front in shade at moment is 30C Just been out putting trays of water out for birds and after 5 min had to come in - It killing out there.

Roll on next week
 
feels a lot hotter than the so called heatwave the other week that was meant to be 5c or so hotter here

I'm already upto 33c :S got a fan exhausting air out the balcony door :S making no difference

maybe I should move it and try to push air from the cooler side of the house instead of pull it
 
MichaelAwkward said:
This is the key thing - you'll have people in the news complaining about the hosepipe bans saying "but it rained last week, why can't I fill my 7 hot tubs and wash my car every day", without realising that a couple days of rainy weather can't make up for several months of below average rainfall. We need consistent rainy weather from now until late autumn to be back in a good position but normally September is quite warm and dry still.
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Dunno what this rain stuff is; certainly haven't had any here for ..... ages. As for the hosepipe ban, it hasn't stopped my neighbour watering her garden with a hosepipe every day since the ban was introduced last Friday :rolleyes:.
 
Chilling on the beach in skegvegas. Water really warm and a nice breeze. 26 degrees. Really good. Going to treat myself to some diabetes inducing sugar covered doughnuts later :)
 
Currently sat around the pool on holiday, where the temp is a constant 32 during the day and 22 at night, day after day for weeks on end. We have a nice little villa with all the tricks that you read about in the guardian that we need to install in our houses in the UK to keep us cool - natural shade, cross air flow, all tiles and no carpet, thick walls, high ceilings, all painted light colours etc etc etc.

It's all crap. Basically when it's hot for days in a row there are two options - air con or get used to it. Everything else is tinkering at the edges
 
Has anyone else heard there meant to be another at the end of August also, set to break the record again.

Weird thing in the Express today front page story said so called weather expert saying we in the UK would have 35c heatwaves every 5 years, dunno why he lives we seem to get heatwaves every week, and wasn't there one in 2019, how is that 5 years, that would be bad but at least you'd get 5 years break.
 
This is rubbish weather to sit on a beach imho ,I don't get why people pay for this , I will be on one myself of course tomorrow but only long enough for a flask of tea ,any walking will be early morning
 
Chillr said:
Maybe most Londoners and Brummies are used to hotter weather, but further up north this is just miles hotter than we normally get and and most of us Northern Brits just are not used to it this hot, most are maybe shouldn't say it but need to be told things or their brain wouldn't be able to work it out cause they are clueless to heatwaves and lots you see still go about like its a normal day of 20c.
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It's not 'normal' anywhere in the UK and I'm fairly sure his post was about their country of origin rather than geographical location in the UK.
 
39C where I am in France at the moment, 40C forecast tomorrow. Luckily every room is air conditioned as otherwise I'd be a grumpy sod at night.

Coming in from the heated pool to complain that it feels too cold indoors because of the aircon is my proudest first-world problem.

Cheers!

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HungryHippos said:
Approx 24C inside at the moment.

As much as possible I follow the pattern of open the windows overnight and then close them when the weather starts heating up, so today probably from 9AM - 9PM I will have the windows closed and the curtains/blinds drawn to stop the heat getting in as much as I can.

If I am lucky, opening them after 9PM cools the bedroom down a little before I go to sleep, but it can take 3-4 hours. If it's too warm outside or no breeze then it's a dead end and I put on the AC unit instead.
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I use 2 fans lounge and bedroom next to windows overnight one blowing the cooler air in one blowing out works well. Also have put up some white sheets at the sun facing windows certainly help to reflect the heat & keep room temps down significantly. digital thermometer is good to work out when best to shut windows in the morning...am shutting any sun facing windows by 7.30am and certainly by 9am for the others. No AC here
 
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