To think there must be something wrong with me because I absolutely can not tolerate the UK heatwaves - anyone else?

And yet so many millions (?) of UK folk can't wait to go and fry in the Med region during July and August! I would not be able to cope with that at all. I often think that in the middle of such heat, there's not much you are able to do without falling ill with heatstroke, so it's bed, pool, under a brolly, siesta, dinner, bed. Early October and mid May are my favourite times to go to these places.

Anyway, last year I was getting some electrical work done and while I was at it, I got a ceiling fan with light installed in my bedroom. OMG I cannot tell you how wonderful it is in very hot weather. Various speeds, timer and so on, and it's just there, no fishing out fans and finding a place to put them either! As you can guess, I live in my bedroom in extreme heat!

Im going to Crete next week. Probably similar temperature to here. Mid 20s but I cope much better with the heat abroad than here. I think it's because I'm in holiday mode. I actually hate when it gets into the mid 20s in Edinburgh.

Spot on!

I did the 2003 heatwave heavily pregnant in the dirty muggy SE town we lived in. Blinds and curtains shut feet in a bowl of iced water, cold bath before bed and wet hair.

Much happier now in the NW despite the rain!

In Ireland and it’s the humidity (as Monica would say😅😅😅)

UK heat, unless by the sea or on a windy hillside is always unpleasantly humid. Global warming or whatever had made this worse. In the past there were notorious heatwave/drought years - 1976, was one I think. Otherwise anything over 22 degrees was rare. Now we get these sudden temp spikes/heatwaves. Not many people like it or feel better health wise at these times. Some do, I personally don't. I like not especially wet winter/autumn weather. I like the clothes better too.

Nonsense, I’m in Yorkshire and work in Manchester, we definitely do! It’s muggy as hell today.

I can't tolerate hot weather especially when it goes with high humidity and pollution. Makes me feel too ill to go out. We are in for a touch time with global warming, sadly.

I don’t love heat (I get irritable and snappy) but I’m certainly not as affected as you. Have you got one of those cold towels?

Yep no such thing as wrong weather just wrong clothes

And just think it wont last, get your vit d for the year! Sunglasses and a hat with cotton clothes.

Move north. I'm in NW England and we rarely get the kind of hot weather people complain about down south.

I used to struggle but then I was wearing polyester and eating food suited to cooler weather.
I got a better wardrobe, prescription sunglasses, comfortable sandals in 2 neutral colours, simple no heat hairstyle, and air con unit, lighter duvet and bamboo bedding, good blackout curtains, got to wearing hats when I'm out which is amazing it gives me privacy and a shelter from the brightness, downside is the flat hair later though! At least 2 showers a day, cut out triggering food like onion and garlic, too much carbs or dairy try to eat cooling food and go light on spices, ironically drink tea or coffee hot. I try to prep food in the morning so im not long in a hot kitchen and avoid long recipes or those needing an oven. You need a wardrobe and lifestyle and diet haul on hot days.

I love the heat and the feel of the sun on my skin. . It makes me feel mentally and physically good. But for all the posters that hate it, fear not. We have around 11 months of grey, wet, windy, drizzly weather with temperatures barely nudging 18 degrees for a few weeks in the summer if we're really lucky (or not, depending on your view point). So spare a thought for people like me who have to endure months and months of cold, grey, depressing crap and often still having to wear a bloody coat in June. I think a few days of 26c is a fair trade off.

I am not a heatwave fan. Anything above 25/26 and our super warm house becomes an oven. I have cooling gel pads in the fridge, a fan you wear around the neck and a wide brimmed visor for when I am out because I don't like the feeling of intense sun on my face. I am counting the days until temperatures drop again...!

It's a very sticky, soggy type of heat. I sweat a lot from my head and neck and my hair was hardly ever dry last year as I had to wash it every day. Combined with a red face and frizzy hair of course I looked amazing 😂

I can recommend a neck fan.

People are all different.

I lived on a Mediterranean island when I was a kid/teenager so to me anything under 35 degrees is not a heatwave!

I do appreciate though that the warm weather is harder to cope with if you are stuck in a big city and/or flat without a garden.

As someone who has lived in a hot climate the advice was always to: stay hydrated, avoid heavy meals, wear sunscreen and a hat and if you need to go out and avoid the warmer parts of the day (so if you need to go out go early in the morning or after 5pm). Don't wear tight clothes and instead wear loose clothing so the air can circulate and wear darker shades as navy blue, black, or deep red absorb UV radiation before it hits your skin.

I hate uk heatwaves, we live in a flat with no outside space and 2 house cats so cannot keep the windows open. I have loads of fans, a portable ac unit and neck fans etc but still hate it. The heat and oppression make my migraines worse and DD cannot self regulate her body temp. We’d like to move to Alaska!

Exactly the same here ,all of us are like this
But we are all autistic and some ADHD
I've just gone on ADHD meds and it's making the heat 10 times worse

It sounds like you have an undiagnosed medical condition.

It feels to me as if Victorian and Edwardian houses were built to handle heat well, but since then we seem to have got less good at it. My house is cold to a quite difficult level over the winter and so I haven’t found this May easy but I benefit now. I am quite religious about managing curtains, blinds and open windows though.

I don't like it.

if it is hot this weekend, I shall be lying in a white cotton nightdress on top of my bed , drinking cold drinks, reading and messing about on my laptop. My cat will probably join me.

This is a public health service for my family as I am very very ratty if hot.

They may knock on the bedroom door if they have an urgent request and I may advise them but what I will not be doing is shifting from this bed unless one of them loses a limb or the house is on fire.