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Fuck this fucking heat

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heatwavehell2 · 01/07/2025 22:07

I’m in the SE and this current heatwave has been utter hell. I have about 10 extremely itchy mosquito bites from being forced to sleep with the windows open as it’s so darn hot. I say sleep, but I’ve been waking up in the night absolutely sweltering and am shattered as a result. Having the windows open also means I can hear every car on the street and every noise the neighbours make, further disturbing my sleep.

I’ve had sweat pouring down my face for most of the day as my commute was like a furnace and our office air con is barely adequate.

There have been endless flies buzzing around the house and garden and around my cat’s food bowl. The cat is suffering in the heat and was sick in the garden and about 200 flies landed on that. I had to scoop it up just before eating dinner - grim.

At work I can barely concentrate due to the aforementioned lack of air con. My brain just feels fuzzy and like it can’t function properly. I have zero energy and feel irritable, grumpy and impatient.

The garden has turned to dust - most of my flowers are dead and the lawn is yellow and crispy.

On top of all that shit and most importantly, the whole thing poses seriously worrying questions about climate change, whether this is the new normal and if it is, what sort of future my kids are going to have.

England is not built for these temperatures. Thank fuck it’s going to rain tomorrow.

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AllTheChaos · 02/07/2025 01:02

It’s horrible in London tonight - I realise now why hell is traditionally pictured as hot rather than cold! Can’t sleep, fans are just blowing warm air around, am shattered after several nights of this. DD was in tears earlier as she was so tired but couldn’t sleep. I’ve draped her with wet muslin and given her a hot water bottle full of cold water. Wish I had one for me! I just can’t function at these temperatures and the heatwave still hasn’t broken here yet, damnit!

dottiedodah · 02/07/2025 00:56

Up again tonight! Bedroom temp 27c on my phone.How can anyone sleep in that? Poor dog is so hot .Went for a walk in the woods ,nice and cool.Stifling yesterday,No shade at all on beach .came home wringing wet.Straight in cool bath .Thunder tomorrow here thank goodness .South Coast

Kimwestonhelpless · 02/07/2025 00:41

It must be horrendous,I'd be like most of you I wouldn't cope in that heat.
I'm bad enough with the heat in Ne Scotland.
Sympathies to you all that are struggling hopefully a cool spell is on it's way.

ZaZathecat · 02/07/2025 00:19

I feel your pain, but one problem can be easily sorted. I have these magnetic fly screens on my garden doors and similar things for windows. I can leave everything open all evening and not be bothered by insects. (Not that any air was coming in at all tonight!)

ChocolateCinderToffee · 02/07/2025 00:08

Terrribletwos · 01/07/2025 23:04

Yeah but we keep being told climate change is affecting everywhere with more heat so we are getting misinformation?

No, we are not. Take your conspiracy theories somewhere else.

NeverendingRabbitHole · 02/07/2025 00:06

It's raining now across the South East OP.

Bliss.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 02/07/2025 00:06

My feet are covered in bites and i don't know whether to blame the cat for fleas, or if it's mozzies, but it's miserable. When I last moved house i gave my fan away and now i wish i hadn't. Can't sleep with the windows open because I get hayfever and the pollen would get in.

Watermelown · 01/07/2025 23:59

Wax earplugs doubled up for sleep - complete silence. Get double sided sticky tape and stick canopy type bed curtains to the top of the window frame. Open the window as wide as it’ll go, shove the material out through the window and then put a fan on level with the open window facing towards it on full blast for a couple of hours. It stops flies getting in and the fan sucks the warm air out of the room. It does wonders for us! I also have knee length socks filled with rice I keep in the freezer to drape over my neck and chest when I go to bed.

3C31M · 01/07/2025 23:56

Great post from @VehicleTracker77. Thanks.
I was about to suggest a tepid shower, not drying off then straight into bed to cool down.

Okiedokie123 · 01/07/2025 23:50

EmeraldRoulette · 01/07/2025 23:46

If it doesn't have a pipe at the back, it basically isn't air con. Why was anyone running that?

Edited

Exactly my comment to the dentist and her assistant. They laughed and said "oh it hasnt got the hose attached"
Well yes..... I gathered that.
Trying to get them to understand the pointlessness of it was such hard work I gave up and sat down to have my teeth looked at.

HollyIvie · 01/07/2025 23:50

I hate it at night and not being able to sleep.
im seriously considering investing in an air con unit for next year!

VehicleTracker77 · 01/07/2025 23:50

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Chinsupmeloves · 01/07/2025 23:49

Up north it's not as intense but I've been suffering as well. Working in schools it's awful, windows which open an inch, the streams of hundreds of students in the corridors with no ac or ventilation makes me feel like a wilted, sweaty mess.

Have to drink more, which means needdng the loo more, which isn't possible for teachers.

Oh and the smell of BO and lynx/perfume in the classrooms with the inch windows is overbearing.

I feel for you all further south, you get the higher temperatures 🌡 xxx

Okiedokie123 · 01/07/2025 23:49

OldieButBaddie · 01/07/2025 23:27

That's not aircon! Aircon has to vent outside either by a hose (portable one) or an outside unit. This sounds like a dehumidifier or a glorified fan!

It was an aircon unit - without the vent attached. In a dentists waiting room.
The one in the dentists consulting room had the hose attached. Same device doing the exact same thing. One was pumping hot air and cold air into the room. The other was pumping cold air into the room and hot air into the atmosphere outside the building. Same thing but sending the heat into different locations.

A fan clearly isnt the same thing at all (because its a fan) Ditto a dehumifier (which collects moisture from the air because its a dehumidifier) - I own one of each.

SunnySideDeepDown · 01/07/2025 23:48

Currently in my kids room soothing her as she wakes every 10 mins dripping in sweat. It’s horrible!

EmeraldRoulette · 01/07/2025 23:46

Okiedokie123 · 01/07/2025 22:44

Which will.......... make everywhere hotter! I adore an aircon situation on a hot day but really seriously........... aircon isnt the answer. I sat next to one recently that didnt have a pipe thingy at the back - it was pumping out more hot air at the back than it was cool at the front. So no actual benefit and disastrous for the environment too. It really woke me up to just how awful aircon systems actually are.

If it doesn't have a pipe at the back, it basically isn't air con. Why was anyone running that?

Disturbia81 · 01/07/2025 23:44

It’s been cool up North in lancs today, what a relief… hope all you Southerners feel it tomorrow! It’s awful feeling cooked from the inside, being cold is so much easier to deal with

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Vinotinto78 · 01/07/2025 23:38

I’m a baker. It’s been hellish this summer. When you only pee once per (10 hour) shift and crave salt, you know it’s bad.

OldieButBaddie · 01/07/2025 23:27

Okiedokie123 · 01/07/2025 22:44

Which will.......... make everywhere hotter! I adore an aircon situation on a hot day but really seriously........... aircon isnt the answer. I sat next to one recently that didnt have a pipe thingy at the back - it was pumping out more hot air at the back than it was cool at the front. So no actual benefit and disastrous for the environment too. It really woke me up to just how awful aircon systems actually are.

That's not aircon! Aircon has to vent outside either by a hose (portable one) or an outside unit. This sounds like a dehumidifier or a glorified fan!

ByGreenHiker · 01/07/2025 23:26

I haven't had a single bad night sleep. I put ice packs that are meant to be in a picnic in my.bed.

One by my feet. One behind my back. One on my torso. Cools the entire body, write down.And I don't have any trouble falling asleep

It's the opposite of a hot water bottle

Dappy777 · 01/07/2025 23:24

Littlemisscapable · 01/07/2025 23:03

Come to Ireland..it is barely 20. We are still waiting for summer to properly arrive...... and it is going to rain for the rest of the week.

My great grandfather left the west of Ireland in the 1870s and came to London. Right at this minute I bloody wish he’d stayed! I’d pay £20 for a chilly night with the sound of rain pattering against the window. Here in Essex it’s literally tropical. It feels like trying to sleep in a rainforest during the hot season.

SoppySalad · 01/07/2025 23:16

I love it.

I teach food and we’ve been baking today, 7 ovens on in the classroom, plus the tumble on constantly. No air con. Just a couple of windows that open a crack. I will admit to being a sweaty mess.

But, I prefer it to freezing in the winter and being terribly cold and at the end of the day, I can walk, do the garden and enjoy the sunshine for a few hours. So no complaints from me.

80smusicandavoulevant · 01/07/2025 23:11

Also southeast… also sweating like a pig. Window wide open hardly any breeze and I know it will be yet another night I struggle to sleep

SharpGreenFawn · 01/07/2025 23:10

Terrribletwos · 01/07/2025 23:04

Yeah but we keep being told climate change is affecting everywhere with more heat so we are getting misinformation?

No.

Average heats (climate) are increasing. That doesn’t mean ‘it’s always hot everywhere all at once’ (weather).