It's too hot :(

V F · 14 Aug 2022 at 00:50

CaptainRAVE said:
Sitting in the garden in the dark and it’s still really warm.

Our garden is full of frogs, I guess the evenings waterings have attracted them. Can’t be much water around right now.

chrcoluk · 14 Aug 2022 at 01:35

Predictions already backed off, east will stay above 25C on Tuesday.

cheesefest · 14 Aug 2022 at 07:11

CaptainRAVE said:
With 30C+ days in June, July and August we’ve never used our air con so much. It’s been great. Hopefully we don’t need the heating on too early this year. It’s hard to imagine being cold right now.

Similar situation in the winter where can’t think of shorts, air con/fans and walking on one side of the road to keep in the shade

cheesefest · 14 Aug 2022 at 07:13

Does anyone know why BBC put 34c as a headline of 34c then look at the individual temps for each hour, it’s 33c for an hour?

Terminal_Boy · 14 Aug 2022 at 07:35

Had thunderstorms, but very little rain over night. There’s a very light shower passing over at the moment and it’s 21°C with a forecast high of 27°C.

That’s whole 10° cooler than yesterday!

aVdub · 14 Aug 2022 at 07:39

robfosters said:
We need a thunderstorm to put some oxygen back into the air. I was having to breathe a bit harder today.

But.....We had them all the time in the 90's and everyone was like "That'll clear the air" and an hour later it was sticky humid hell again :cry:

Am enjoying the little news I'm forced to watch in the mornings with their highly trained journo's informing us that the sun is hot and water can be wet, while opening windows lets Billy the chav smackhead burglar in and pretty soon you will die when your bush goes up in flames.

In other news everything is going up in price and we are writing the doom scripts now about how cold this winter will be....

JonRGV250 · 14 Aug 2022 at 08:22

Im just waiting for the bed wetting, soy latte drinking lunatics to start shrieking cLiMaTe ChAnGE when we mysteriously have thunder storms after a period of hot weather.
I’m sure at some point Brexit will be mentioned as well.

CapitalOne · 14 Aug 2022 at 08:28

JonRGV250 said:
Im just waiting for the bed wetting, soy latte drinking lunatics to start shrieking cLiMaTe ChAnGE when we mysteriously have thunder storms after a period of hot weather.
I’m sure at some point Brexit will be mentioned as well.

Is it the frothteenth of frothuary already?

You missed out “woke”

Mysterae_ · 14 Aug 2022 at 08:31

It's majorly foggy here in the Highlands. Humidity is about 93% according to the Met Office.

CapitalOne · 14 Aug 2022 at 08:34

It’s very frothy in Suffolk

cheesefest · 14 Aug 2022 at 11:55

JonRGV250 said:
Im just waiting for the bed wetting, soy latte drinking lunatics to start shrieking cLiMaTe ChAnGE when we mysteriously have thunder storms after a period of hot weather.
I’m sure at some point Brexit will be mentioned as well.

Also the people who moan about it’s raining!

When was the last time we had any rain? Not talking a couple of spots. At least 6 hours of continuous rain

randal · 14 Aug 2022 at 12:30

So good to see the people moaning about people moaning, the irony is not lost.

robfosters · 14 Aug 2022 at 12:33

My mates lost 2 of his prize koi to low oxygen in the water. He’s already got 2 oxygenators in the pond, but it’s not enough. He’s just praying for the rest now. One of the koi was worth over a grand

DXP55 · 14 Aug 2022 at 13:14

It's stinking hot here at the moment -not a breath of wind. - Roll on this thunder storm.

Years ago I lost two of my Koi - The pump packed up and before I could fix it we had a humdinger of thunder storm.
Next day two of my biggest carp were on the pond suround.
Got the hose in there on medium and all the other fish formed up in formation in front of it.
I think I lost a few more but this was a good few years ago - To be honest I wouldn't have a fish pond again.

Lost a white one as big as this

Chillr · 14 Aug 2022 at 13:22

Blackjack Davy said:
Amber warning for extreme heat where my mother is and she says she feels sick all the time. Worrying.

30% chance of light rain tuesday. That'll fill the reservoirs /s.

Its the same everywhere theres a picture of river in lincolnshire thats dried up completely and its worse in france more than one river has dried up completely and even the mighty Loire has been reduced to a piddling stream

What did they call it? White oil? Water is more profitable than oil extraction which is why all the water companies are foreign owned its worth a fortune.

Less than the time it'll take to build all the nuclear power stations thats going to solve all our energy problems then eh? Good, good.

Hope your mum is ok, it's a scary time, my mum and dad are getting on and neither seem to do anything to stay cool, maybe its a generation thing I dunno, their home is absolutely mafting, they never open windows, just sit and suffer, you tell them all things to try and keep cool but they just do their own thing and pretend its not dangerous temperatures, they also only drink tea and coffee which in my mind is pure madness.

wookiee87 · 14 Aug 2022 at 13:27

Chillr said:
they also only drink tea and coffee which in my mind is pure madness.

plenty of freinds i know swear by drinking tea or coffee in hot weather, i tried it at work when it was really hot and by god it worked, 5-10mins after i felt cooler even though is was swealtering hot 37 degrees outside and 40+ in the warehouse i work in, though did rig a usb fan on my forklift to help keep me cool until my next break(s), luckly the week just gone and next week i have off so i missed the worst of the heat, but still at home i swear its just as bad

Chillr · 14 Aug 2022 at 13:31

chrcoluk said:
Predictions already backed off, east will stay above 25C on Tuesday.

Yep, was so looking forward to Tuesday getting down to 20, but now that's warm as well which I just knew it would be, the forecasts are always miles off and always below with predictions, by the looks of it this warm weather goes on to end of August at least which is as far as I can see on the forecast, think this August will be the hottest on record, hope September and October are cooler with lots of rain for the garden but fear it will be another 2 months of heatwaves.

Chillr · 14 Aug 2022 at 13:34

wookiee87 said:
plenty of freinds i know swear by drinking tea or coffee in hot weather, i tried it at work when it was really hot and by god it worked, 5-10mins after i felt cooler even though is was swealtering hot 37 degrees outside and 40+ in the warehouse i work in, though did rig a usb fan on my forklift to help keep me cool until my next break(s), luckly the week just gone and next week i have off so i missed the worst of the heat, but still at home i swear its just as bad

Really, I don't drink either and pretty much just drink mainly water, you wouldn't think it would cool you down but maybe it does somehow. At least they are getting hydrated some how.

Yeah got a fan at home, just seems to make it warmer though most of the time in this heat as it just moves hot air around, not really bothered having it on much.

wookiee87 · 14 Aug 2022 at 13:38

Chillr said:
Yeah got a fan at home, just seems to make it warmer though most of the time in this heat as it just moves hot air around, not really bothered having it on much.

luckly for me i have a aircon unit i bought when the country was in covid lockdown and i was on furlogh, its earning its keep during thease hot spells, 10-15 degrees cooler in my room, which is a god send

Chillr · 14 Aug 2022 at 13:43

wookiee87 said:
luckly for me i have a aircon unit i bought when the country was in covid lockdown and i was on furlogh, its earning its keep during thease hot spells, 10-15 degrees cooler in my room, which is a god send

What make is it, does it cost lots to run it? the cost of them and the hassle with something stuck out the windows, we have odd shaped windows, doubt it will work on the bedroom windows.