The 'heatwave'

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Don't get me wrong it's been hot here in SE London, but pleasant with a breeze. The house is now light duvet weather, in a Victorian terrace.

The local reservoir is fucked but the local lake / river is higher than normal this time of year.

Anyone actually really hot, where are you in the uk?

No idea of the temperature here, in W Mids. Yesterday doing some housework left me covered in sweat, so I have an excuse to be lazy today.

West London and it’s like a sauna in my flat. Cannot wait for Autumn! Dreaming of wearing a coat and hat and seeing my breath in front of my face.

It’s been low to mid thirties here since it got warm again. 34 yesterday.

Our house stays bearable because it is old with very thick walls and small windows. Also spent a lot of time in places where these temperatures and warmer are the norm, so used to it. I’m still sleeping under a winter weight duvet, for example.

28.2 on the thermometer outside the kitchen window ATM - SW London. Sun hasn’t been on that window for a few hours.

25.5 in the sitting room, no sun on that side of the house since yesterday pm.

30 inside house in suffolk

The longer this goes on, the warmer all the infrastructure becomes. Pavements, roads, bricks, tiles etc. if you live in an urban area there is no escape. We need grassland, woods, fields, open spaces. I live in an urban area but there is a huge common / wood near me and if you walk there at night, it's actually chilly enough to want a sweater.

W.Midlands here and has been very hot, have been struggling especially at night. I am hypothyroid though so don't regulate heat as well as I used to when younger.

I don't know why you have put 'heatwave' in quotes - it actually is a heatwave, meteorologically!

32oc in midlands. It's been over 30oc upstairs going to bed.

The title of this thread, with its irritating punctuation, reminds me of when we had those 100 mph winds in February and a few posted that it was all nonsense and made up because they only had a slight breeze.

Over 30 degrees here (rural East Midlands). Again. It’s fucking hot. Again. It’s a heatwave, not a ‘so-called, completely made up by a few people, load of nonsense, have some more backbone, it was warmer than this in 1976, soi disant heatwave.’

The ground is parched, the crops are suffering, farmers are struggling to grow food for us. It might not seem like a heatwave in your fabulous corner of London, OP, but it fucking looks and feels like one in the countryside where your food is produced.

A heat wave is when it's hot day and night temps do not drop. Not just the day temp

It's currently 28 degrees here in South Yorkshire.

That’s your definition. The Met Office says different: www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/temperature/heatwave

Heatwave definition - a threshold-based meteorological definition designed to provide the media and public with consistent and reliable messaging.

Well In suffolk and it is HOT.

I spent most of yetserday laying starfished on the living room floor by the fan while watching the European Championships and muttering 'too bloody hot for that'

I felt quite ill yesterday with the heat - bring on the rain next week!

South east coast feels too hot. No covers at all at night and still too hot. My bedroom was 26.6 last night with the windows open.
Popped out this morning abt 9.30 my car said it was 28 outside. Will be hotter now and I have to go out in abt half an hour.

I can actually see a cloud out of my window at this very moment. First one I've seen for days. It is very small and fluffy, but still - it might give somebody a little shade for a minute or so...

West London, 34c here, I honestly can't remember the last time I used a duvet !
(and yes, I've got the summer ones)
The most I've used for weeks has been just an empty duvet cover
I'm wiped out from the heat, everything is puffy....

Greater Manchester and It’s fucking vile. There’s just no air at all, you can’t do anything in the home because it’s so warm. I woke up this morning dehydrated to fuck. You cannot escape it unless you go to the supermarket and hang around in the fridge sections. All the grass is brown, flowers have turned to potpourri, the city centre Looks horrendous with filthy pavements and hideous topless oafs pissed out of their heads on every corner. 🥵🤮

I've found I've been the same as last time - I was ok for a few days but am reaching the end of my tolerance and approaching having a sense of humour failure about how bloody warm it is.

It doesn't help that the cat thinks the best seat in the house is actually on me.

@hotfroth send it my way haha!

Also in Suffolk and seriously fed up with the heat and humidity. After a run of hot days the house never really cools down much and nights are still uncomfortably warm. The dogs and humans are flaked out indoors as the garden is an inferno, even in the shade. The cat has moved out for somewhere cooler and only pops home for meals. I feel I have missed this Summer as I seem to have spent most of it indoors with all the curtains drawn.

Yes, OP, I can confirm it's really, really 'hot' here in Derbyshire. My 'thermometer' says 36 'outside', 27 'inside'. Not seeing any sign of a 'pleasant breeze' so far 'today'.

I think the OP is talking out of her arse on this.

West Midlands 33c it's gross out there. My friend and I went swimming earlier rather than the gym. Yesterday was a massive sweat fest

We've come to stay with my parents in Cornwall for a few days on the basis that their 400yr old house is always cool. No it isn't! Not yesterday and today at least. The air is completely still and it's horrible unless you're actually in the sea.
I was just thinking about how little we've done this summer as I'm rubbish in temperatures above about 26. Also, unlike when it's raining, I feel as though we should be outside enjoying it and I'm a real wimp for not being able to cope.