Coping with the heat.

[FIU]

According to the 'experts,' El Niño won't affect western Europe until the end of summer. Bad news for those regions already in drought.

I've read this too but I am seeing differently. To be honest, after being told total nonsense by climate "experts" for 60 years, I now take what the experts say with a grain of salt.

In Florida, El Niño effect is definitely starting. We too have had hotter the normal weather and a change in the upper air system that appears to be preventing afternoon monsoon storms from fully forming in southeast Florida. There is not much that we can the weather, so it is best to make yourself as comfortable as you can. Personally, I recommend spending time in air conditioning. The AC is a game changer that makes these interludes tolerable.

 

[slaine_23]

Spectacular thunderstorm last night on north west coast Ireland, at least 50 mins plus. Lots of flashes, much forked lightening (unusual enough in Ireland), not much rain at all, and it was strangely quiet.
Still scared the bejaysus out of the dogs.

 

[Pattree]

I’m holidaying in Sheringham, Norfolk. Unsurprisingly shops are full of hand fans, from classically oriental to usb chargeable electric.

So what is the bushcraft answer to the hand fan?

Afterthought on a grander scale, anyone ever rigged up a punka or similar?

 

[Woody girl]

I’m holidaying in Sheringham, Norfolk. Unsurprisingly shops are full of hand fans, from classically oriental to usb chargeable electric.

So what is the bushcraft answer to the hand fan?

Afterthought on a grander scale, anyone ever rigged up a punka or similar?

Punka might be a good idea, but where on earth are we going to get all the punka wallas from?.... I don't think we have any in the UK....... we'd need millions of them.
Oh wait...

 

[Pattree]

 

[Woody girl]

Sorry, I've just smacked myself and am now wearing sackclith and ashes. I havnt had my humour bypass operation yet.

Seems even my sense of humour is not quite up to modern standards...but it ain't half hot! Just ask that Welsh actor chappie. It was called comedy in my youth.

 

[Pattree]

I too loved Windsor Davies and the programme.
Punka wallahs existed. I have no problem with the historical reference however recent.
I only took exception to the suggestion that millions of punka wallahs might be available in UK today. If I read that wrongly then I am very willing to apologise. It was the “…. Oh wait…”

In the words of Battery Sergeant Major Williams: [Deep valleys ascent] “Oh dear, how sad, too late, never mind, carry on.”

I’d still be interested in designs for impromptu fans and punka.

 

[Herman30]

In the words of Battery Sergeant Major Williams: [Deep valleys ascent] “Oh dear, how sad, too late, never mind, carry on.”

 

[Woody girl]

I too loved Windsor Davies and the programme.
Punka wallahs existed. I have no problem with the historical reference however recent.
I only took exception to the suggestion that millions of punka wallahs might be available in UK today. If I read that wrongly then I am very willing to apologise.

In the words of Battery Sergeant Major Williams: [Deep valleys ascent] “Oh dear, how sad, too late, never mind, carry on.”

I’d still be interested in designs for impromptu fans and punka.

Well, I never said they were already here.
Though there might be some RW football hooligans who'd disagree.
(By the way..I hate football! Have never watched a game in my life, not even the local kids team. )
I do rather like , and am learning to play croquet tho. A very healthy, genteel and pleasant game on a saturday or Sunday afternoon with a cream tea to follow. How delightfully fashonedly english of me.
Or is that out too now, along with my rather out of date humour and english country garden?

 

[Pattree]

I’ve never watched any sport other than a road race in Rathdrum over lunch and 20 minutes of a horse show in Manchester - that covered about four competitors and I gave up.

How anyone can sit for 90 minutes plus gaps to watch other people play a game is beyond me.

But
(Look out; segue back to topic coming up: )

How could they keep cool in this heat?
How might a bushcrafter do It?

 

[Woody girl]

I’ve never watched any sport other than a road race in Rathdrum over lunch and 20 minutes of a horse show in Manchester - that covered about four competitors and I gave up.

How anyone can sit for 90 minutes plus gaps to watch other people play a game is beyond me.

But
(Look out; segue back to topic coming up: )

How could they keep cool in this heat?
How might a bushcrafter do It?

Myself, I'm happy with a hammock in the deep woods.. but as to a punka, I tend to waft my front and back doors realy quickly to push hot air out and draw cooler air in in the late evenings. Must have a cross draught to work, so windows open on the cool side of the house. It's not perfect, but does work a bit and takes the temp down a degree or two.
I know things are to be a bit cooler this week, but its predicted to come back with extremely high temps in early july, so I'm going for m&s cooling sheets for the bed, with a pet cooling mats to lay on. Lots of picnic cooler blocks in the freezer, and will also be freez,ing bottles of water to attach to my fan..
For a punka without a walla, a large bit of cardboard, attached to a line, then a cam rigged to a little battery operated motor, the sort you get in kids electrical experiment kits about an inch long, or maybe something a bit more robust from model boats or aircraft. I'm channeling Heath Robinson here.
I can't see it clearly, but I'm sure someone could improve on the idea..

 

[Toddy]

The Romans wrote of the Picts (that was their name for what the old Welsh called them Prydyn... origin of the word Briton....they were just native tribes) that they worked wonders in the morning and the evening, but in the heat of the day they lay in their huts with their feet over their heads.....I reckon the siesta is a good way to chill out in the heat of the day.
Don't try to fight it; find the cool shade and just chill.

 

[Woody girl]

Oh bliss! I woke up not sweating like a navvy this morning. Sunny but much more bearable temperature. 23° lovely.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Punka might be a good idea, but where on earth are we going to get all the punka wallas from?.... I don't think we have any in the UK....... we'd need millions of them.
Oh wait...

Treadmill and a dog. Borrow one from a friend, neighbour or relative, of you don't have one of your own. Or start a doggy day-care, get other people to pay you for the time their dogs are turning your treadmill to move the punkah.

 

[Woody girl]

Treadmill and a dog. Borrow one from a friend, neighbour or relative, of you don't have one of your own. Or start a doggy day-care, get other people to pay you for the time their dogs are turning your treadmill to move the punkah.

A puppy walla!
You might even be able to harvest the waft from waggy tails for further cooling.
Puppy power!

 

[Keith_Beef]

in the heat of the day they lay in their huts with their feet over their heads

I think that tribe was called the "Contortii".

 

[Keith_Beef]

For my part a cure for the 38°C that arrived here yesterday, and that is hanging around still, is to go to Gdańsk airport to catch a flight home and find that the flight is delayed by over an hour, although that has now been reduced to 45 minutes. But still, sitting in an air conditioned airport.

Hoping to make the connecting flight in Warsaw...

 

[Lean'n'mean]

As the heat dome move eastwards & I slowly awaken from estivation....I saw that the developing apples on the trees exposed to the direct sun have been cooked.

Another heat wave is developing in western Europe & will arrive towards the end of next week & the second week in july looks pretty much like what we have just experienced, only this time it will be arriving on already warmed, dry soil, so it could be more intense. I don't know if Britain will be affected again but the chances are southern England will be. There aren't many records left to be broken but the duration is still up for grabs & the jet stream may see to that.
Scotland & Ireland risk being invaded by hordes of holiday makers this year. Being on a windswept, freezing, sodden Scottish Isle sounds like heaven right now.

 

[Nice65]

As the heat dome move eastwards & I slowly awaken from estivation....I saw that the developing apples on the trees exposed to the direct sun have been cooked.

Another heat wave is developing in western Europe & will arrive towards the end of next week & the second week in july looks pretty much like what we have just experienced, only this time it will be arriving on already warmed, dry soil, so it could be more intense. I don't know if Britain will be affected again but the chances are southern England will be. There aren't many records left to be broken but the duration is still up for grabs & the jet stream may see to that.
Scotland & Ireland risk being invaded by hordes of holiday makers this year. Being on a windswept, freezing, sodden Scottish Isle sounds like heaven right now.

Wow!

Having attended a viewing of the National Emergency Briefing a couple of weeks ago, seeing things like that happening are a worry.

 

[Toddy]

We're having a bumper year for fruit here.

GFSon1 and myself are both struggling to process all the fruit as it ripens. There's only so much we can eat at the time.
Raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries, brambles, rhubarb, strawberries and cherries, all at once is a little overmuch.
Even the wild fruit, from rosehips to elderberries and rowans are really starting to ripen too.
Thankfully the apples, pears, plums and quince, though growing faster than usual, will come in hopefully once this glut passes.