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[Toytown Assassin]

OK let's see who's suffering the most. Here in my part of North Yorkshire The met office is predicting max temps of 34 today and 39 tomorrow but it's already 33 in the shade outside in my garden! At least the humidity is low at 31% so it just feels nice and warm so far.

Any Londoners still alive?

 

[Sybrix]

I'm London, 31c currently, saying 39c max today.

I work from home, all my windows closed and curtains closed, was out in the garden this morning @8am watering plants, staying inside now.

Got a desk fan but no AC, ill see how i get on later and tomorrow when those temps hit nearer 40c..............

 

[funkygunther]

Hiding in the gym all day, it's the only place with aircon

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

It's the whole of western europe, not just UK.

 

[Kenpachii]

Jup netherlands also hot as fuck, hope next 2 days i don't need to do some serious work because holy shit.

 

[Toytown Assassin]

It's the whole of western europe, not just UK.

Sure but the UK doesn't do heat very well. No air con most places etc.

Just hit 34 here.

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Just 24 here ATM

I've had the fan on full blast for over a week even when I'm asleep.

I don't handle heat very well tbh bad thyroid D:

 

[FunkMiller]

I am in London, and would probably be advancing towards hell were it not for my portable air con unit, that while supremely inefficient, is still much better than nothing.

Luckily my employers are still allowing me to work from home... although our offices have an extremely good air-con system, so I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to be here or not.

I do not want to jump on the tube to go and find out though...

Trying to explain how bad it is to my Australian relatives is not easy. They don't really understand how poorly this country is set up for hot weather.

 

[Woffls]

Looks like 35 later here, but currently fine at 30. I live in a new detached property above garages, so should be able to keep it cool.

So glad i’m not in London any more. My old room will probably reach 45c today

 

[jezhumphrey75]

27c atm here in cornwall...peaking at 30c around midday apparently...not to bad but im in indoors with doors open and a bit of a breeze.

 

[Toytown Assassin]

If you are getting your temps from weather aps they are probably wrong on the low side. I've been looking at a few and they are struggling to keep up. They've been adjusting the actual temp now upwards to try and match reality without changing the temps for later in the day so they show the temps dipping and going up again on the prediction plot.

 

[nani17]

here in Ireland places hit 27 to 29 we're not used to this

 

[M1chl]

Next two days is going to be bad. Reviving my old thread from 2 years ago, because it's happening around the same date and year-on-year it's getting worse:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/fuckin-global-warming.1559205/

 

[Toytown Assassin]

here in Ireland places hit 27 to 29 we're not used to this

Yeah I expect it's the same as the UK where all the building are designed to keep out the cold and wet and heat is murderous. The only good thing about this heatwave is the low humidity so it's a dry heat.

Just hit 35 here with humidity falling to 23%

 

[Spaceman292]

They're saying it'll reach 41C where I am today. Actually a little scared. I want people to freak out about this more. Everyone panics over 2cm of snow but unprecedented Death Valley heat is just a bit of fun.

 

[IDKFA]

I'm in the south west of England. We're going to get in the high 30s today. I don't think we'll hit 40+ like other parts of the UK.

It's still crazy that the UK will get to 40c. I never thought I'd see this temperature in this country. I know people in Aus and some parts of the US are laughing at us because they get this heat on the regular basis, but we're not equipped in this country for this kind of heat.

 

[AV]

28 now with highs of 34 later, near Bradford. Tomorrow is worse. Thankfully only in the office Wednesdays and it looks like it'll calm down by then.

Got the fan rotating between me and my cat.

 

[MudoSkills]

London here, desk fan on setting 1 and absolutely fine.

I've been guaranteed death if I set foot outside, because apparently I'm not trusted to bring along a bottle of water or stand in the shade.

 

[Jayjayhd34]

27c here got my trusty tower fan keeping me cool working from home so not too bad.

 

[DKehoe]

Working from the office today and tomorrow and I've got aircon on so should be fine really.

 

[Valedix]

Just 24 here ATM

I've had the fan on full blast for over a week even when I'm asleep.

I don't handle heat very well tbh bad thyroid D:

Ya think 24 is hot? Oh boy lol

 

[InfiniteCombo]

They don't really understand how poorly this country is set up for hot weather.

but we're not equipped in this country for this kind of heat.

Can anybody from British GAF elaborate on this?

 

[Spaceman292]

Can anybody from British GAF elaborate on this?

It's hot five days of the year. The rest of the time it's cold and grey. Of course that's changing as the years go by.

 

[Toytown Assassin]

Can anybody from British GAF elaborate on this?

I'm sure we all can! The problem is the houses are designed to trap heat which is great in winter but in summer the air inside warms up and stays that way. Even if you open all the windows over night when the temp drops outside its still warmer in the house. The walls etc radiate heat inwards. This morning when I was cooling the house ready for today it was 5 deg c warmer inside still by the time the outside temps started shooting up.

 

[nani17]

Yeah I expect it's the same as the UK where all the building are designed to keep out the cold and wet and heat is murderous. The only good thing about this heatwave is the low humidity so it's a dry heat.

Just hit 35 here with humidity falling to 23%

That's true these buildings were not made for this heat

 

[InfiniteCombo]

I'm sure we all can! The problem is the houses are designed to trap heat which is great in winter but in summer the air inside warms up and stays that way. Even if you open all the windows over night when the temp drops outside its still warmer in the house. The walls etc radiate heat inwards. This morning when I was cooling the house ready for today it was 5 deg c warmer inside still by the time the outside temps started shooting up.

Appreciate the response!

Sounds like air conditioning (whether it's window units or central AC) is not prevalent?

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Ya think 24 is hot? Oh boy lol

Oh trust me I know it's gonna get worse and people in other places are worse off but I don't deal with heat very well.

26 now though D:

 

[Toytown Assassin]

Appreciate the response!

Sounds like air conditioning (whether it's window units or central AC) is not prevalent?

You get it in most larger shops and offices but hardly any homes have it.

Edit: to be fair it'd mostly be a waste of money as we typically only get a handful of hot days a year. Usually 1 week in august! A typical summer where I am in North Yorkshire is weeks of solid low cloud with temps around 15 sodding degrees.

 

[FunkMiller]

Appreciate the response!

Sounds like air conditioning (whether it's window units or central AC) is not prevalent?

No houses in the UK are equipped with air con as standard. You can have it fitted in certain circumstances, but it’s very expensive and rare.

UK homes are built to prevent air flow, so as to keep heat in during cold weather. Exact opposite of Australian home design, which is meant to create air flow as much as possible to cool.

UK in extreme hot weather is like Queensland in extreme cold weather. Absolute hell, because the infrastructure is not built for it.

 

[Valedix]

Oh trust me I know it's gonna get worse and people in other places are worse off but I don't deal with heat very well.

26 now though D:

Just wait until you hear that here in Australia 40 degrees in considered hot

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Just wait until you hear that here in Australia 40 degrees in considered hot

We aren't used to the heat though lol

 

[Roufianos]

If that useless cunt Khan stopped throwing money at those greedy TFL tube drivers, we might have some money to get air con installed on the network.

 

[FunkMiller]

Just wait until you hear that here in Australia 40 degrees in considered hot

Mate. I’m half British, half Australian. Lived for years in both. 40 degrees in Australia is like 30 degrees in the UK. I was wandering around in 38 degree heat in Cairns in February, and it was nowhere near as horrendous as 30 is in the UK.

 

[Clear]

Its utter bullshit. Obviously so if you are old enough to remember the summer of '76, which was 3 straight weeks of hot, dry weather. I believe the hottest summer in 350 years in the UK.

Its hilarious how these fear-merchants conflate statistics in order to create a false narrative. For example conflating mean temperatures with the sort of peaks that are entirely expected at the height of summer. Its obvious that milder winters are going to have an equal or greater impact than what happens in the summer, but as they can't hype that as a cause for concern they cherry-pick datapoints that do.

 

[Liljagare]

Keep hydrated BritGaf!!



We will join you on thursday it seems, supposedly hitting 38 C up here in middle-upper Sweden.

Atleast the corn plants will enjoy it!

 

[FunkMiller]

Its utter bullshit. Obviously so if you are old enough to remember the summer of '76, which was 3 straight weeks of hot, dry weather. I believe the hottest summer in 350 years in the UK.

Its hilarious how these fear-merchants conflate statistics in order to create a false narrative. For example conflating mean temperatures with the sort of peaks that are entirely expected at the height of summer. Its obvious that milder winters are going to have an equal or greater impact than what happens in the summer, but as they can't hype that as a cause for concern they cherry-pick datapoints that do.

Literally nobody had brought up the effects of climate change in this thread. Are you even a Brit?

 

[mitch1971]

36 in manchester

 

[Toytown Assassin]

Literally nobody had brought up the effects of climate change in this thread. Are you even a Brit?

Also for what It's worth I do remember 76 cos I'm an old bastid and it lasted a lot longer than 3 weeks and never got as hot as this mini heat wave probably will. Records will tumble all over the UK and that's just the official temps away from the heat islands most of us live in.

 

[MudoSkills]

I'm about to pop for a walk, so if I don't post in the Wordle thread shortly after midnight let my family know that I died.

 

[FunkMiller]

I'm about to pop for a walk, so if I don't post in the Wordle thread shortly after midnight let my family know that I died.

Can I have your video game collection?

 

[InfiniteCombo]

Are you even a Brit?

I'll remember this for when non-Americans comment on our affairs and events here in the United States

Spoiler

If the wink emoji wasn't clear, I'm joking/trolling a bit...

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Essex here, just been into the town centre and it's death. Some seriously ugly fat birds out as well with ill fitting clothes just about on..

It's all too much.

 

[Ellery]

34°C gotta go to work in two hours.

Remember to don't let hot light/air into your flat throughout the day and open windows wide at night.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

It’s 33°C where I am in Netherlands. Forecast for tomorrow is 38°C. Air conditioning on. No fucks given. Good luck to those without AC.

 

[Clear]

Literally nobody had brought up the effects of climate change in this thread. Are you even a Brit?

I never brought up climate change. I was referring to the hysterical way that a hot-spell is being misrepresented in the UK media as the next big public health crisis. Go to the BBC website if you think I'm exaggerating. Its pathetic.

For the record I am British, and am resident in the UK.

 

[Days like these...]

It's hot five days of the year. The rest of the time it's cold and grey. Of course that's changing as the years go by.

Yeah and when people suggest buying an ac they complain that it's not worth the investment, it won't fit in my window, it's rarely ever hot blah, blah, blah. Had one guy admit that people just want to complain instead of doing actually doing something about the heat

 

[StabbyStabStabStabStab]

No houses in the UK are equipped with air con as standard. You can have it fitted in certain circumstances, but it’s very expensive and rare.

UK homes are built to prevent air flow, so as to keep heat in during cold weather. Exact opposite of Australian home design, which is meant to create air flow as much as possible to cool.

UK in extreme hot weather is like Queensland in extreme cold weather. Absolute hell, because the infrastructure is not built for it.

Australia has 7 climate zones - up north insulation is used to keep the heat out, but the more temperate zones in the south, e.g. tassie and Victoria where I used to live its the reverse.

Anyway, when it does creep up to 40C and beyond I used to hit the supermarket and hang around the fishfingers - supermarkets in general never scrimp on aircon that's for sure (although I've yet to test this in the UK mind you...).

 

[Star-Lord]

It's 37C here at the moment.

 

[AlteredForms]

Essex here, just been into the town centre and it's death. Some seriously ugly fat birds out as well with ill fitting clothes just about on..

 

[KyoZz]

Approximatively 102° Fahrenheit, and it keep getting higher and higher.