It's too hot.

[Nice65]

I just washed some clothes and put them out to dry. Apart from a t-shirt which I put on wet. Bliss … just keep wetting it every hour and you’ll be super cool !

It’s definitely a good thing. I’ve been helping a mate out with delivery driving last two days and just filling a bottle at every stop and tipping it over me, then cruising on to the next with the windows open has helped loads.

Annoyingly it’s a refrigerated van.

 

[C_Claycomb]

The day working from home was every bit as uncomfortable as expected. Not Paul_B's office-oven uncomfortable, but it got up to and stayed at 28C in my spare-room-office, and trying to concentrate on risk spreadsheets when it is that warm, while the computer is pumping out heat is hard.

 

[C_Claycomb]

I just washed some clothes and put them out to dry. Apart from a t-shirt which I put on wet. Bliss … just keep wetting it every hour and you’ll be super cool !

Not so good if you are sitting, as you get a wet butt, and then a wet chair. That costume is weekend only for me!

 

[Robson Valley]

Good thing that it's hot outdoors where you live. That kind of water evaporation in cold weather means hypothermia and it will kill you. Your peripheral blood goes into your core and the shock stops your heart. Slow or fast, every gram of water that evaporates from you is pulling 540 calories of heat energy with it.

Get your head wet. Thin skin, excellent blood flow, good radiator.

Although it never seemed to get even to the trendy level, we can buy misting attachments for garden hoses. It's almost like standing in a very wet and very cold fog on a bright sunny hot day.

I do best with salty foods, room temperature drinks, even water, and a smallish fan. Hostess lemon instant tea works well, so does Clamato cocktail. Keep up your liquid intake to what might seem almost excessive. No diuretic like alcohol.

In the outback, we could buy jars of "saltadex" tablets. Salt and dextrose to power your salt uptake. Take 2-3 with every drink of water. Once they finally swell up and seal, the South African canvas water sacks are mighty fine and cold.

 

[Tengu]

Yes, a touch of salt might be beneficial this week.

I normally avoid it.

 

[Robson Valley]

Nothing much can make you sicker quicker than electrolyte loss. Perspiration in the heat. Even worse when you aren't used to it. The salt does no damn good unless you can actually absorb it into your blood stream. This is an "active uptake" mechanism which requires energy to power the revolving door. That's where the bit of sugar comes in. Artificial sweeteners are poop.

Feeling rotten in the heat? Go to a local fast food place. Order a large chips with salt. Order a large 7Up or Pepsi, some fizzy sweetened drink. Be a gutz and finish it all.
My quickie home remedy is 50g crisps and a can of 7Up. No, it does not need to be cold. Belch very loudly, please. Shweppes Club Soda has some potassium salts in it (unlike the cheap crap) and K+ is good for heart rhythm. I cut white grape juice with CS = good drink.

By 2:30P yesterday, I knew I was thirsty and that I needed more than just water.
Heaping bowl of hickory sticks (shoelace crisps) and a 1.9 liter jug of Clamato cocktail. Refreshing effect lasting for hours.

Jeez! It's so gloomy at 1230PM, can't decide if it's just smoke or maybe a rain clouds as well. Visibility is crappy.

 

[Toddy]

Not so good if you are sitting, as you get a wet butt, and then a wet chair. That costume is weekend only for me!

I'm managing with my squirty bottle. I just mist down my hair, face and neck and arms, and with any draught at all it's blissful.

It's been an utterly miserable day with the heat. I had to drive up to Hairmyres hospital, the waiting room was at an airless, windowless end of a corridor, and they were running very late. By the time I drove home I was just overwhelmed with it all. Thank heavens for showers, I'm about ready to live in mine.
It's 23.9˚C still outside just now, and 63% humidity. I can't see me managing much sleep tonigt.

Heaven knows how those poor souls who've gone down with the virus are dealing with the heat as well.

 

[Mr Wolf]

I bought a small spray bottle in the poundstore. Meant for misting plants or too dry cloth for ironing.
I fill it with plain water and mist myself down with it. Face and neck and arms and lower legs, and it's blissfully cool as the mist evaporates from my skin

What do you think this is… a Mills and Boone novel?

 

[Robson Valley]

Misting is excellent. Artificial perspiration and you soon notice the cooling effects of evaporation. Wiping exposed skin with a dripping wet wash cloth will be similar.

Toddy: In this day and time in British Columbia, the death rate is about 200 per week. During the week of the heat dome, that number jumped to 800 deaths.

 

[Toddy]

It's scary when we realise that those numbers might become common I hope things settle quickly over there.

Mostly the UK is cool and damp and rather green.
I love the changing seasons, I relish every time I can smell that change in the air, in the way the light changes, the way the world around us flows into the seasonal round. We kind of long for the next one as we're sort of three quarters of the way through the present one. Summer's just really full on now, and we have at least another month near two of this sunny bright warmth. By then we'll be craving cool misty Autumn.
I loathe the thought that our profligate waste of the Earth's resources might destroy our temperate climate. We moan when it feels too hot, or too wet, or too cold, or too windy, but the reality is that in the scheme of things, compared to other places, we live in a garden isle

 

[Toddy]

What do you think this is… a Mills and Boone novel?

It's Mike who's doing the wet Tshirt no' me

 

[Mr Wolf]

It's Mike who's doing the wet Tshirt no' me

I felt my age today… gave my son a shoulder ride for a mile, Mostly uphill

 

[Toddy]

I mind my Dad doing that with me He was carrying me over to visit my Granny on the other side of the river, and he walked through the castle policies. He met a couple of men he'd been at school with, they were the gamekeepers of the estate. If you were local and they knew you, they didn't mind you taking the short cut through to the bridge. He put me down on the grass and wiped his bald pow because it was so hot.
He said I stood up and took my first steps there in front of the castle.
Now the estate is all broken up, houses built, etc., but the castle was a favourite playground for my own children. It's just half a mile away from where we live now.

Your son will mind the shoulder ride I can still see my own baby hands patting my Dad's head and almost feel that determined tread that he had as I sort of bounced as he walked.

It's funny the things that set in the memory.

M

 

[Robson Valley]

Evening of weak thunderstorms but a piddle of rain with each one.
How the hell do you measure and report 0.2mm rainfall? My BBQ is wet?
7-10 days with highs below 20C in the forecast. Tangible relief for everyone.

 

[Danqrl]

Coalcracker?

you got it i never thought of coffee as something to create an ember with.

 

[Herman30]

what's your definition for hot?!

For me, anything over 25C is too hot.

 

[TLM]

The same air to air heat pump that warms the (summer)house in winter also cools it during the summer. So it takes some energy but I would rather sleep.

During the night it is cooler so utilizing a thorough blow through helps the pump until about noon. All windows can be opened but the smaller ones that are easily used suffice in most cases.

If one has forced ventilation with a heat exchanger a very small amount of water sprayed into the out going air stream before the exchanger can cool the incoming air by upto 10C very small amount of extra energy required.

 

[Erbswurst]

In south France they sleep during the summer under a cotton bed sheet.

A short sleeved buttoned shirt allows more air flow than a T-shirt and shouldn't be tucked into the shorts.

For further informations I give you three links here that allow you to pull the end of the thread.

John Wayne - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Bernard Montgomery - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Légion étrangère — Wikipédia

fr.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Herman30]

A short sleeved buttoned shirt allows more air flow than a T-shirt and shouldn't be tucked into the shorts.

For further informations I give you three links here that allow you to pull the end of the thread.

I believe in being cooler if not allowing the sun to touch the skin so always long sleeves for me and loose fitting clothes.
Lately I have been wearing a combat shirt =

https://armyworld.pl/eng_pl_British-Tactical-Shirt-With-Protective-Pads-Combat-Shirt-MTP-HOT-WEATHER-Original-New-3280_4.jpg

when outside my appartment. Full length sleeves and a torso made of lightweight mesh fabric. As undershirt I wear a string t-shirt of merino wool =

https://res.cloudinary.com/www-brynje-no/image/upload/c_limit,d_standard_placeholder.png,f_auto,h_1600,q_auto,w_1600/v1526989714/p_10150205_slideshow_4

 

[TLM]

The light weight PA "Suplex" or something like that with very fine fibers and quite tight weave provides very good sun protection in very light weight quite strong and does not mind getting wet. Was all the rage some years ago but can still be got from better stores.