It's too hot.

[Toddy]

My garden is like an oven. The woods alongside are drooping. The willows are losing all their new tips.

It's silent too; even the birds are hiding from the heat.

Fires in this are a no, any physical effort is draining. I've been working in the garden and all I can taste on my upper lip is salt.

It has been a pleasure being out morning and evening however. It's cool at 5.30am and it's cool-ish again by 8pm and light enough that I can work outside until well after ten.

British weather...always sommat to complain about

How are you doing in it ?

M

 

[dwardo]

My garden is like an oven. The woods alongside are drooping. The willows are losing all their new tips.

It's silent too; even the birds are hiding from the heat.

Fires in this are a no, any physical effort is draining. I've been working in the garden and all I can taste on my upper lip is salt.

It has been a pleasure being out morning and evening however. It's cool at 5.30am and it's cool-ish again by 8pm and light enough that I can work outside until well after ten.

British weather...always sommat to complain about

How are you doing in it ?

M

Cracked past 15c in Scotland again Mary? You lot wont cope!

Currently purchasing an over priced paddling pool for the kids and wondering how we are going to Juggle work and kids for the next 6 weeks.

Its very like snow. We are underprepared and inexperienced but I think we are going to have to get used to more of the same in coming years..

 

[nigelp]

I was working in Wales over the weekend and Monday - 3 days of hill walking and map reading. I drank 3 litres of water each day when out!

Today I’m pottering around how sorting my gear and getting some bits together for the moot.

I don’t mind the heat so long as I can drink loads of water and stay hydrated.

Looks like it’s only a few more days until the weather breaks

 

[CLEM]

I’am pretty lucky and can adapt pretty well to hot or cold without too much difficulty really but yes it is hot. I can’t say that I enjoy trying to get some kip when it’s this warm mind.

 

[Toddy]

Cracked past 15c in Scotland again Mary? You lot wont cope!

Currently purchasing an over priced paddling pool for the kids and wondering how we are going to Juggle work and kids for the next 6 weeks.

26.8˚C in the shade in the back garden just now. Even the house is at nearly 24.

15 would be brilliant right now

The old school summer holidays don't really work well now, do they ? Kids used to be very much part of the harvest labour. Not now, not for generations, yet we're stuck with the loooooong Summer off. It really doesn't make things easy now when it's normal for both parents to be working full time too.

M

 

[Toddy]

I’am pretty lucky and can adapt pretty well to hot or cold without too much difficulty really but yes it is hot. I can’t say that I enjoy trying to get some kip when it’s this warm mind.

Trying to sleep in it's miserable. Not the first time I've given up trying to sleep indoors and gone for a snooze in the garden instead.

 

[crosslandkelly]

A balmy 32 down here at the moment, I'll be sleeping in the garden for the forseeable.

 

[Kadushu]

It was 29-30°C earlier but we've had about an hour of thunder, lightning and heavy rain so the temperature is more like 20 now. *Sigh of relief*

 

[demographic]

I'm fine with the cold but not keen on working in the heat.
Maybe if I was an officewallah milling about in an air conditioned office it would be ok but some carpentry jobs require effort and I'm one of those people whos often in a t shirt for most of the year so just get too hot.
We finished at 15:45 today cos the heat was too much.

 

[Tony]

I've just spent two hours lugging boxes and packing the trailer for the Moot, sun trap here and into the 30's, luckily daughter #4 had a piano lesson and I could come inside while Shelly took her, she thinks we're going back out later, I think I'll be disappointing her

We were out on the bikes at 6 am and it was hot then... might be tempted to have a swim in the sea later!!

On the other hand it's supposed to be storms the weekend.

 

[Wander]

Roll on October, when the weather starts to get civilised again.

 

[oldtimer]

It's 31C in Oxfordshire at 1730. Why does this seem hot? But for Covid-19, we'd be in the South of France as usual at this time of year where 30C feels pleasantly warm.

To look on the bright side, it saved me from mowing the lawn. Madame reckons it's too hot for me to be pushing a mower now I'm pushing 80. Didn't argue.

 

[Robson Valley]

Heat rises. I don't much like it hot, over +30C, and I do something about it. Spread a quilt on the floor with lots of cushions and pillows to experience the much cooler air at floor level. Go barefoot in the house. This last heat dome, I saw +44C in the shade outside my front door. My thermometer in the shade on the south balcony a few years back showed +47C. That's a hell-hole of a place in the sun at any time.

Wear a hat any time you go out. I have a couple of Greg Norman mesh golf hats. Beat the hell out of a Tilley in the heat. Shade and ventilation. My guess was that you can expect the Aussies to have good ideas for coping with the heat.

Food: salty things like crisps. We get hickory-smoked shredded crisps like shoe laces. Junk food rules. Drink lots but really limit the booze to maybe wine or beers with meals. Otherwise, I have laid in a stock of Clamato, white grape juice, orange juice and cranberry juice. Swill it down. I mean it: tank up. Our village water is alpine snow melt, I can see the source from the kitchen. In my house, the cold water is +8C and I sip on it all day and night.

Only certain kinds of fresh fruit seem to have a cooling effect on me: strawberries, watermelon, cantaloupe and nectarines. I just sit on a stool in the kitchen and munch on it. Hot meals = I'm not cranking out extra body heat to warm up a supposedly cold meal. At the same time, things like Vietnamese Salad Rolls are easy to make and satisfying to shove down my neck.

I had this crazy-bottom idea that I'd buy some new summer shirts and shorts.
Looked in the closet: I have racks of Carhartt summer clothes that I've forgotten about!

 

[nigelp]

Weather looks dry and pleasant for the moot next week.

 

[bearbait]

I'm fortunate enough to be able to spend several hours a day sitting in the shade of my woodland, or reading and dozing in the hammock. Still too warm though. 10c - 15C cooler would be preferred by me.

 

[Tengu]

Oldtimer, stay away from that mower.

Dads out in the garden or off with pals up to something strenuous all day.

I will say he wears a hat and drinks plenty, -nor is there any adverse signs.

He sweats buckets though.

But it makes me worried.

 

[stevec]

30 odd in the sun here, but just had new radiator put in, so had to run the heating up for 30 mins at full blast in order to get the new inhibitors round the system properly. House was roasting after that

 

[Nice65]

I'm fortunate enough to be able to spend several hours a day sitting in the shade of my woodland, or reading and dozing in the hammock. Still too warm though. 10c - 15C cooler would be preferred by me.

I’ve taken on a mate of mines 2 day delivery round delivering eggs from rescue hens and decent high welfare baked stuff. Mostly it’s the little village shops and farm shops, but getting to them often involves A roads and a bit of motorway. Got trapped on the motorway today while a stricken truck was shifted, 40 mins in the sun with a refrigeration unit on the cab roof keeping the back cool, but me cooking hot! Phew, that so hot I was tempted to get out and into the refrigerated back.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Normally I would be complaining about the heat this time of year but since we've had such an unusually cool & wet spring & summer so far, the 32°C that suddenly arrived yesterday (it was 20°C on sunday) is far from disagreable. A nice North easterly breeze too. It isn't going to last though as thunderstorms are forecast for the weekend.
Fortunately I don't have to work out in it & there's plenty of shade in the garden. First year too that I have to mow the lawn in july because of all the rain we've had,

 

[Nice65]

Fact is, if we stayed at around 20-30° as per our now imagined British summer we’d be fine because we can acclimatise better. No sooner do the shorts and sandals come out and we need an umbrella and the fire lit. Guaranteed these days is three days of sun and we get thunderstorms. I believe the planet to be overwhelmed by us ripping its guts out and burning them, making plastic, making fumes, dumping the waste into the rivers and seas etc.