How do people in hot countries continue to populate?

I’ll get the hot choc and biccies in. 😊

Can’t believe I’ve read the whole damn thread and nobody’s spotted the typo in the thread title.

The person who made the overweight comment should be spit roasted btw

My husband is like that, I’m always thankful of a heatwave as it means he’s hot enough to take his kit off, rather than taking of as few clothes as possible!

I feel the same as you OP! The thought of DTD' in this heat is unthinkable. Thankfully I'm happily single so it's one thing I don't have to worry about, thank goodness. About 10 years ago,I had a partner who LOVED this sort of weather (he was originally from a hot country) and unfortunately the heat made him horny. The complete opposite of how I felt. I got absolutely sick of him keeping pawing at me, trying to coerce me into having sex. I swear it was a miracle I didn't end up murdering him..

I love the cold, I love the sun too, but from being a child I’ve always loved a cooler room, I just sleep better in them.
It’s not the end of the world like when camping etc but I like to be comfy at home

20! There's such a difference in living in cold climates and hot climates. My heating is still on at 20, and I'm looking forward to it getting to summer and the 30s again.

I'm like that in the winter too 🤣🤣

I spent the summer in Greece once and the temps were 38c-42c or so. I got used to it, but didn't really notice that I did until it "cooled down" to 30c and I was putting on jeans and a light sweater. 😂

DH is Mexican from a part of the country where it doesn’t really get below 30° year round and 35/36 in the summer. They don’t have AC or anything, or even glass in their windows so it’s always as hot (or hotter) inside than out 😅 but a fan makes a nice breeze and when you live somewhere hot you adapt to it and it doesn’t feel the same as it does for us when we’re used to it being cooler. He struggled with the cold when he first moved here but has mainly adapted now

Sounds like you're a bit of a bitch, no?

I like a cold room too. And fortunately I get that the vast majority of the year by opening the window. I get that right now Aircon would be of benefit though.

I understand what you are saying but if it goes above 20 I like the aircon on. I’ve always liked a cold bedroom so I can get cosy in the bed, I still like a duvet on me abroad 🤣

I love the sun / heat but I just like a cold room too

What you have said doesn't address my points about this being a cold island. You have just given some good factual evidence of how it could be colder though.

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“The Atlantic circulation is really important for Britain because it transports a lot of heat ultimately from the tropics up towards the UK,” says David Thornalley, Professor of Ocean and Climate Science at UCL. “And if you have major changes in ocean circulation, you are clearly going to be interrupting that transport of ocean heat, which will have an effect on weather systems.”

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/stories/what-would-britain-be-if-gulf-stream-changed-course

I'll see if I can find a separate study for London.

@SerendipityJane I said Britain. Not London. Britain is generally considered to be a cool or temperate island, not a hot one. Its climate is classified as temperate maritime, experiences mild summers and cool winters. Britain has an average annual temperature of just 9.2°C, much lower than most of Western Europe and well below the global average of 14.96.

I acknowledge London shares its latitude with many cities that experience much colder climates. But that doesn't make it a warm place. New York City is much farther south (about 40.7° N), yet often has colder winters than London due to its continental climate.

If you had heating and aircon but lived anywhere in Britain, what would you use more often?

An incredible, factually incorrect statement to suggest this is a warm island at an average of 9.2°C.

Er, it's the other way round. Britain is a relatively warm island etc, etc.

If you want the proof, follow the latitude around the globe from London and see where else is our parallel friend ...

If it weren't for the gulf stream, we'd be a hell of a lot colder. And if we manage to kill the gulf stream, heatwaves will be the least of our worries.

Britain is a relatively cold island on the north Atlantic Ocean. On the rare occasions it's warm through the day I like to enjoy it. There's probably only 5 nights per year where I find it somewhat uncomfortable of an evening to sleep. In my life the heat has only stopped me sleeping on one occasion. I'd rather put the money towards a new. Kitchen.

I was thinking this with the weather in the UK right now. Sweaty flaps, sweaty balls, changing the sweaty bed constantly, the smell of the room after. Gross!

Another smug poster here with aircon 🤣

We have it in all bedrooms & lounges. Still sleeping with my pjs & a duvet on.

Honestly don’t know why more UK homes don’t have it!

The primary issue for me in the UK is that when it gets hot, there is no escape. I can tolerate high temperatures during the day if I have the opportunity to cool down at night, but that is not possible when my house is 26-30C inside and with no wind outside, opening windows does nothing to get cooler air into the house, so I am stuck with dealing with repeated poor quality sleep.