No its not a lovely fucking day!

[Puppybum]

Even in the frosty winter I'm hot, always hot. In the summer I'm just a little cooler than a blast furnace. I go out with my DH on a summers day and he always turns to me while my face is scarlet and hair dripping with sweat and says " Isn't it a lovely day! "

Have been lucky enough to visit some of the warmest paces on Earth: Death Valley, deserts in Australia, and places pretty much on the Equator, I wouldn't class any level of warmth yet achieved anywhere in the UK as intense heat.

@Livpool

I understand how people can not enjoy hot weather but in the UK we get about 4 weeks of hot (I say nice but we can disagree) so surely that's ok when the remaining 48 are either cool or wet

Last year was months and months of heat, not 2 weeks. It was truly the worst summer I have ever experienced.

My underarms have now got the rash they get when it's hot so deodorant burns and makes the rash turn into an open wound, but not wearing it means sweat runs down my arms and I smell which makes the rash kind of spongey. Which discomfort is the most appealing 🤔

Plus the pale skin which means I've had 3rd degree burns from the sun is a pain. Sticky sun cream just to drive the car so I don't get burnt.

@InkieNecro sorry you suffer in the heat.

Today is the worst kind of weather - warm and wet 🤢

I feel at home here. I fucking hate the heat, but I live and know a bunch of sun worshippers. My anxiety gets worse in the heat and I often end up feeling really depressed in the summer. It's like reverse SAD. I'm not menopausal, but I don't tolerate heat well at all, never have. I was newly pregnant with morning sickness in summer 2018 when we had weeks of 28 degree + temperatures, and it was just prolonged misery. Absolutely horrid.

I love rain, wind, any cold days, really. My favourites are icy, crisp, sunny mornings. I also like the shorter days in the winter. I don't mind hot holidays when there's an easily accessible pool and buildings have air con and are set up to withstand very hot weather, but in the UK, in a new-build house that's like a fucking furnace, when my only option to cool down is a tiny paddling pool that toddler DS has likely peed in, my neighbours are in their gardens blasting shit music, and I have to work in my sweltering office/spare room with a desk fan blowing warm air at me then no, no I'm not a fan at all.

@PhoneLock, that's right, you wouldn't.

but in the UK, in a new-build house that's like a fucking furnace,

This always puzzles me. Why are new-builds like this? They are supposed to be super-insulated to be more energy efficient, yet they seem incapable of keeping warmth out.

Probably one of the reasons I really don't find warm weather the problem that some people obviously do is because I live in an old stone house with solid walls feet thick. It is always relatively cool inside even on the warmest days. The cellar stays a steady 12-14 degrees year round. We sleep under duvets without the need for fans.

@PhoneLock

but in the UK, in a new-build house that's like a fucking furnace,

This always puzzles me. Why are new-builds like this? They are supposed to be super-insulated to be more energy efficient, yet they seem incapable of keeping warmth out.

Probably one of the reasons I really don't find warm weather the problem that some people obviously do is because I live in an old stone house with solid walls feet thick. It is always relatively cool inside even on the warmest days. The cellar stays a steady 12-14 degrees year round. We sleep under duvets without the need for fans.

My 2007 built house has air con, installed in 2017. When the company installed it, the loft was measuring 50C on their thermometer and they were going up in 2-3 minute shifts, taking them an extra day to install things. After our house they had a temperature cap put in place so they didn't have to go through that again.

Downstairs is usually around 30C when outside is 25ish, upstairs without turning air con on is nearly at 40C.

I will never live in a house without proper air con again, even if I have to take out a loan to have it installed (£3k ish for 3 bedrooms in the south east if you were wondering). Only difference is I'd have it installed in the lounge too next time.

@Phonelock I have no idea. It costs us pennies to heat in the winter, and rarely gets cold, even when the heating is off, so perhaps it just locks heat in and does the same in summer when the sun is streaming through the windows? I really have no idea, I just know it's very hot, generally sitting at 28-29 degrees indoors on days like yesterday. My parents Georgian house with very thick walls and tiled floors is much, much cooler, but also costs a fortune to heat, so swings and roundabouts, I suppose. I wouldn't buy a new-build again, though.

My 2007 built house has air con. I will never live in a house without proper air con again

Our house is around 300 years old and it really doesn't need it. A couple of years ago, it hit 36.5 outside. It was 22 inside.

We have had houses with air con in Australia but it only got turned on when the bedroom hit 30. Too expensive to run otherwise, plus you do get acclimatised to the higher summer temperatures.

@Babysharkdododododododododod

I usually love it. But I’m 40 weeks pregnant so today I don’t.

I gave birth on a hot summer day about a million years ago.

The Labour Ward had aircon.

I didn't want to go home.

@PhoneLock

Have been lucky enough to visit some of the warmest paces on Earth: Death Valley, deserts in Australia, and places pretty much on the Equator, I wouldn't class any level of warmth yet achieved anywhere in the UK as intense heat.

That would suggest you actually like the heat, though, since any one of those destinations sounds like hell on earth to me. I loathe it, absolutely loathe it. I'm fine with -9, as long as I have the right clothes for it, and it's a whole lot easier for me to deal with cold than heat. You get to the point where there's nothing else to take off. 35 yesterday, 30 today (not in UK). Ugh.

I've started taking wet flannels out with me to mop the sweat off my face, how wonderful summer is

I’m with you InkieNecro

We have aircon upstairs (cost just over £2k in 2005) and I will never live in a house without it again. Our bedroom got to 96 degrees before we had it, in the summers of 2003 and 2004. I would have moved house without the aircon.

I still hate the heat though. That moment when you have to get in your car when it has been sitting in the sun, vile. Instant sweat from head to toe, clothes clinging, head pounding.

Hopefully the next few days will give us some respite.

We are in the South East, if only it was four weeks of hot weather!

Last year we switched the aircon on for 90+ days.

We barely had a winter, I wore my winter coat on about ten occasions.

This year the hot days started in March. March!

I long for October.

I would move to Scotland but for the midges!

It was 30oC at work yesterday. And the masks made it far worse. I felt like a sweaty hippo.

@MinnieMountain

This is what you said, and what I infer from it is that hating summer is not something specific to the British, but being obsessed with the weather in general is (specifically a British thing), which it is most certainly not.

I wouldn't say hating summer specifically is a British thing. Being obsessed with the weather in general is.

No, @eaglejulesk because I would have said "hating summer is a specifically British thing". See the change in meaning because of where I put "specifically"?

Anyway, I definitely didn't mean that being obsessed with the weather is the preserve of the British.

Raining here, grey skies, only 16 degrees, I can breathe, so lovely. Hope everyone feels better today.

Much better oh apart from the screaming, tantrumming ratbag of an 8yo I have here

Definitely nicer today, cool, lovely background noise from the rain, no more headache, can wear clothes, less tantrums from toddlers.

Weather looks good for the next week or so!

We have the fire lit in the sitting room.

I went to bed sweating by morning I was sound asleep under a duvet so much cooler. Been showery then sunny here today so was hot at times. This evening pleasant, hopefully another good nights sleep for us.

Can finally breathe!!

Where has the summer gone?! Bring back the mid-20s heat and clear blue skies. Feeling thoroughly miserable now 😭

I am finding the cooler weather a wonderful respite. Sorry!