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to think the heatwave may finally be over?

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mindymoo11 · 16/07/2026 15:50

I have suffered the last three days in the South East. It is 30 degrees where I am today. I'm suffering! And its been in the high twenties all week. I haven't slept with fans on.

However looking at the weather forecast, its dropping to a lovely 21 degrees next week. Is that the end of it?

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icepopsincoming · 16/08/2026 22:12

Still bloody hot and humid in the south east. There is no air flow whatsoever.

and not a drop of rain for months 😞

cowasballerina · 15/08/2026 10:09

Dull, overcast and breezy here. Currently 19c, rising to 24c tops later. Much more comfortable. Just need lots of steady rain still.

Fatiguedwithlife · 14/08/2026 17:57

I’m enjoying it! No need for foreign holidays in the summer now. Don’t need to carry cardis and jackets everywhere. Warm enough to lie on the beach with a book. (And yes I have also been working in it.) maybe I’m just a lizard 🦎

ApplePieCinamon · 14/08/2026 17:54

I pray it does. I have never felt more sick and miserable than this year. Ironically I grew up in a country FAR hotter than this but this heat is truly something else. Homes are also not equipped, so you have a rotten sleep and
just miserable throughout the day. Both my kids were sick with heat exhaustion and refused to be out much. So it’s been miserable stuck inside as well. Almost all
activities require you to be roasting outside. I absolutely cannot wait for it to be over

friedaklein · 14/08/2026 17:50

Drivingselfmad · 17/07/2026 18:12

Are you suggesting that people who live in poor housing and work in poor working conditions have chosen this? It’s way more complex than that, unfortunately, and I’d suggest you do some reading. Unless I’ve misunderstood your tone/post - apologies if so.

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Have bus drivers and nurses chosen their lives so it's ok if they collapse in 38 C?

friedaklein · 14/08/2026 17:49

tobee · 17/07/2026 22:34

Love your username @BettyJoanPerske

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Lauren Bacall! That has briefly distracted me.

friedaklein · 14/08/2026 17:48

tobee · 17/07/2026 22:31

I don’t think it’s been as bad as this summer’s previous ones. Less soupy and humid.

i love summer and warm weather compared to rain and chill. However, wishing for weather that you or I might like best doesn’t make any difference to the day to day reality.

in my experience August is usually a bit wetter and cooler than June and July but we shall see

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Where are you?
In London it's been way worse than previous summers.

FFSItsTooHot · 14/08/2026 17:44

I bloody well hope so. I've had enough of this shit.

incrediblyincredible · 26/07/2026 10:00

Anyone finding it’s cooled down but still somehow so humid!? I only have to get up from a chair and I’m sweaty!!

Mrstawnyowl · 17/07/2026 23:13

Ncforthis2267 · 17/07/2026 10:12

Well I'm bloody loving it. Long live global warming!

Early morning walks under a warm blue sky, lunch in the garden under the shade of the cherry tree, then evenings at the beach playing with the kids in the sea.

Feel sorry for the city folk though!

Well bully for you!

tobee · 17/07/2026 22:34

BettyJoanPerske · 17/07/2026 10:09

No it isn't 'the coolest summer we'll have!'. Next summer will probably be cool and damp and then everyone will moan about that.

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Love your username @BettyJoanPerske

tobee · 17/07/2026 22:31

I don’t think it’s been as bad as this summer’s previous ones. Less soupy and humid.

i love summer and warm weather compared to rain and chill. However, wishing for weather that you or I might like best doesn’t make any difference to the day to day reality.

in my experience August is usually a bit wetter and cooler than June and July but we shall see

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latetothefisting · 17/07/2026 18:57

Ncforthis2267 · 17/07/2026 10:12

Well I'm bloody loving it. Long live global warming!

Early morning walks under a warm blue sky, lunch in the garden under the shade of the cherry tree, then evenings at the beach playing with the kids in the sea.

Feel sorry for the city folk though!

Nice of you to feel sorry for the city folk but apparently not give a fuck about your own kids, who are going to be the ones hugely impacted by global warming throughout their lives...

amargaritaplease · 17/07/2026 18:47

Ncforthis2267 · 17/07/2026 17:18

Sucks to have made the choices that they've made I guess.

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You sound utterly ghastly.

hollybungalow · 17/07/2026 18:25

just adding some first world problems. 3rd week in a row my calippos have been unavailable in my tesco delivery 😢

Drivingselfmad · 17/07/2026 18:12

Ncforthis2267 · 17/07/2026 17:18

Sucks to have made the choices that they've made I guess.

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Are you suggesting that people who live in poor housing and work in poor working conditions have chosen this? It’s way more complex than that, unfortunately, and I’d suggest you do some reading. Unless I’ve misunderstood your tone/post - apologies if so.

sweetpickle2 · 17/07/2026 17:41

Ncforthis2267 · 17/07/2026 10:12

Well I'm bloody loving it. Long live global warming!

Early morning walks under a warm blue sky, lunch in the garden under the shade of the cherry tree, then evenings at the beach playing with the kids in the sea.

Feel sorry for the city folk though!

“Long live global warming” because you like going to the beach, really?

sweetpickle2 · 17/07/2026 17:40

BettyJoanPerske · 17/07/2026 10:09

No it isn't 'the coolest summer we'll have!'. Next summer will probably be cool and damp and then everyone will moan about that.

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Do you understand that the planet is heating up at an alarming rate?

drivinmecrazy · 17/07/2026 17:20

Not over here in Spain. It’s still 36 at half past six.
not fun

Ncforthis2267 · 17/07/2026 17:18

Drivingselfmad · 17/07/2026 14:56

Yes, delightful for you with what seems to be good housing with a garden, well located, and no requirement to work all day in overheated conditions. Difficult and potentially dangerous for many others.

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Sucks to have made the choices that they've made I guess.

Ncforthis2267 · 17/07/2026 17:17

mindymoo11 · 17/07/2026 14:46

long live global warming?

A man fainted in my apartment building in the heat recently. He was brought to hospital

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And? Cancel summer because a man fainted? Weird.

Drivingselfmad · 17/07/2026 17:07

mindymoo11 · 17/07/2026 15:01

yes. my apartment building does not have adequate air conditioning.

My workplace does't have it either. Both buildings are awful.
If someone put a child in a hot car all day, everyone would realise how dangerous it is.
However they expect adults to sit in hot boxes of buildings all day.

I constantly feel sick from the heat and I am suffering heat related health effects. My body is swollen. I feel exhausted. ITs awful

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Sympathies. I’m finally coping ok with the heat now, but that’s only because I finished term last week. Being a teacher was a nightmare for the last few weeks. Children suffering and learning nothing - it was a matter of survival.

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mindymoo11 · 17/07/2026 15:01

Drivingselfmad · 17/07/2026 14:56

Yes, delightful for you with what seems to be good housing with a garden, well located, and no requirement to work all day in overheated conditions. Difficult and potentially dangerous for many others.

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yes. my apartment building does not have adequate air conditioning.

My workplace does't have it either. Both buildings are awful.
If someone put a child in a hot car all day, everyone would realise how dangerous it is.
However they expect adults to sit in hot boxes of buildings all day.

I constantly feel sick from the heat and I am suffering heat related health effects. My body is swollen. I feel exhausted. ITs awful

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Sartre · 17/07/2026 14:56

August can go both ways. Sometimes it’s roasting and dry, other years wet and cooler. September tends to heat up again and we’ve also had random warm Octobers in recent years. We were chased by wasps on my DS’s bday one year at the end of October.