People trying to carry on the drama after a heatwave

It most certainly has not been 32 degrees in Cumbria today.

What’s your reasoning for making this up?

It's still hot though.

34-35C which it was (near me in the North Midlands,) was a real struggle, (I think it was 5 days in a row!) and I am relieved that it's dropped to 28-29C, (which it's been today,) but it is still hot, and I get why some people may still be struggling.

A decade or so ago, we would have passed out at the thought of a temperature over 28C for the best part of 4 weeks which we have had so far! (Might be even longer yet!) Yet here we are. Understandable that some are still struggling, even when it's dropped a bit.

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We haven't had a summer with weeks of 30+ temperatures for 50 years, so of course people aren't used to it.

Having shutters is a problem in the uk as windows generally open outwards, so you can't operate them unless at ground floor level. When we lived in Paris our windows opened inwards so could use shutters even if on a higher level floor.

It completely depends on what kind of home or office or school you have to be in. Someone in an old solid wall house with little windows is going to feel the heat less than someone working in an office or school with loads of glass baking like a greenhouse.

Our 1970s house with big windows has been uncomfortably hot for many days even when the outdoor temperatures dropped.

Still over 30 for the next week here but temperatures overnight are dropping low enough to cool everything down more. It's hot but not anything like it was 2 weeks ago

Fed up of hearing how houses in the UK hold heat when in the winter everyone moans how drafty and cold the same houses are on here.

It's still been 30° here today and I have actually vomited after too many days of heat. Still over 28 for the next few days. Some people, like me, really struggle.
Haven't moaned to anyone though.

Crikey. You were like this on the dentist thread too yesterday.

That’s not really true. Actually our housing stock is incredibly poorly insulated compared to other similar countries, many with much warmer summers.

Insulation works both ways: it prevents heat transferring in or out. If our houses were well insulated to keep heat from inside on the inside they would also be very effective at keeping heat out when they are cool inside.

A large part of the problem is British people doing stupid things like opening their windows during the daytime when it’s hotter outside than inside and therefore letting the cooler air inside their homes escape, saying a “breeze” of air coming through “cools down” the house. Obviously it doesn’t, if the air outside is warmer. Fans can be used for air circulation when the temperature outside it hotter than inside, that’s what they are for.

The crazy fuss about a couple of weeks of temperatures that are normal for months in the vast majority of countries in summer is ridiculous. People saying they can’t go outside or can’t go to appointments or can’t go about their life as normal, it honestly makes the UK a bit of a laughing stock just as it does when our airports close for 2cm of snow or the trains can’t run if there is any heat/ frost/ there are leaves falling from trees, our roads are full of potholes because we used slightly cheaper building methods that can’t withstand the slightest temperature change without cracking, etc. Pehaps the roads resemble the people.

This overlooks the huge campaigns about excess deaths in those super heated places ..across the world

Some flats are highly problematic in summer. I’ve just been to a HOT European city and I reckon what we need are the external wooden shutters on windows, They are standard in Europe for buildings without aircon and make all the difference. Somebody who has more business sense than me should start fitting them in the B warmest parts of the UK so that flat dwellers can block out the sun and keep cool in the summer.
A bit like this but nicer and darker:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4342389557/rustic-farmhouse-cedar-wood-shutters?ls=r&ref=pla_similar_listing_tertiary-1&content_source=43e41f2059db0aec50bedbdba64744e4%253ALTab16678dba0b32edac93762254e5f093d94bbfe0&logging_key=43e41f2059db0aec50bedbdba64744e4%3ALTab16678dba0b32edac93762254e5f093d94bbfe0

It’s “freakish” for people to be suggesting that even with temperatures in the early to mid 30s. With proper precautions it’s not a dangerous temperature level otherwise more than half of the world would be considered uninhabitable for 6+ months of the year.

My brick house is still superheated. Pavement temperatures were up to 59 degrees in places...how fast interiors reduce in temperature depends on green spaces, trees, gardens, the ability to have doors and windows open (safely) and much more.

After the last heatwave the indoor temperature here only dropped 1 degree a day.

If people have been out in the sun..the UV will be heating them too...

Heatwave not over here

Our schools haven't closed at all here, despite the temp still being 30. It's going to be another hot week here and many will find the heat hasn't anywhere to escape to now.

Because English homes are designed to trap heat whereas most places in Europe are designed to do the opposite.

Our infrastructure and daily lives are also not set up for hot weather. We’re expected to carry on as normal whereas many counties have siestas or will close down when it’s hot (schools finish earlier in the the day and are already shut for summer etc).

Hardly surprising that the inside of your house is hot if you’ve had your windows open all day in 34 degrees! 😆

Flats exist in many other countries as well. A lot of the time when people are making a fuss it’s because they’ve been doing stupid things like opening windows during the daytime.

There was even a thread here yesterday with someone asking whether it would make a house cooler to open windows in the daytime when it’s hot outside! Then the same people constantly run around saying how unbearably hot they are. It’s like they’ve never come across summer before, or basic physics.

It's very, very humid where I am still. Today was 31 and we are finally due to drop to 28 tomorrow but that means nothing really because the old Georgian buildings are roasting. We desperately need some clouds and/or rain.

While I agree there's a massive difference between 25 and 34 degrees. When it's been 34 degrees, the insides of buildings stay really warm. The inside of our house is still substantially warmer than outside even after having all the windows open all day.
I will also say, while 25 is a lot less than than 34, I still find 25 way to warm to be comfortable in, let alone work in.

Well of course it will be warmest by the evening, if you’re ventilating it properly overnight then closing windows in the daytime. But it will cool very quickly once the outside temperature drops below the indoor temperature and you open doors and windows to ventilate.

This is just summer. For once we have a decent one. It’s not a big deal.

Flats can be up to 10c hotter than is it outside

Everyone is different, if people are struggling then theyre struggling. If you are not, good for you.

Its still hot here but breezy so I am delighted but not for me to tell someone else theyre not uncomfortable if they feel that they are.

Live and let live

Side note, get seperate single covers each instead of sharing a duvet. Never have to abide by what someone else wants ever again! He can have his 13 together if he likes while you have a cotton sheet

#menopausesurvival