to think people saying it's much hotter elsewhere should stop

[notanevilstepmother]

Other places have the infrastructure to deal with hotter weather or colder weather as appropriate.

I'm fine when it gets cold and I can always add another layer.

I really can't go to work naked.

As for whoever it was that thought walking dogs at night and not during the day was being precious first doggy, their paws burn. Please don't walk them on hot pavements.

Off to sit in the car which is the only place with air con.

All these people getting so irate over those who prefer the cold. I can't wait to see your whinging threads in the winter. I'll direct you back to this thread.

YY from. I was thinking the same.
So many people who complain about the heat. And then so many that complain about the cold/snow/ice in winter....

Im also wondering about all of those that complain abut the heat butare then choosing to go away on hols in very warm places (florida, spain etc etc) to be able to get some sun as yu know, we never have any sun in the uk (more complain abut the weather...)

Pink when we go anywhere 'hot' we go at times when we can avoid the worst of the heat. It's not that we ever go to get the sun anyway, we go places that we're interested in and explore cities and sights.

Last night was unbearable. Today I've managed to keep the house cooler, I have a dog with a hotspot on his paw and he's really suffering with it in the heat especially as he's having to wear the cone of shame. It seemed to have pretty much cleared up at the end of last week and then the weather changed and it's very irritated again, poor thing. It's breaking my heart to see him like this.

Tomorrow is forecast to be hotter where I am than today, and then cooler from Thursday.

I've lived in Australia, Asia, the ME and the hotter parts of the Med without air conditioning, in buildings that really let the heat in. I worked 70hr weeks in a very hot part of Asia living in cheap flat that doubled as a large oven, and working in an office that seemed designed to let in as much heat as possible. My house in Australia was usually 5-10 degrees hotter than outdoors if we had a few hot days in a row, so every year there'd be at least 10 or so 40-45+ days. The ME was something else altogether. Scalding hot days, no AC at home or in car, and no relief in the form of an easy schedule as being employed by a western company meant I worked western hours.

None of it was pleasant, but no problem for anyone reasonably healthy. I'm very sensitive to the heat, was not exactly at peak fitness, and was always stupidly ill-prepared (always forgetting water and hats and sun cream), and I got through it just fine.

Not everyone living in hot climates has AC and lives in lovely cool buildings. Some hot places just haven't caught on to AC, as the culture has adapted to the heat so much that it seems unecessary. In other places loads could never dream of affording it. And many hot places have fairly harsh winters too. My current home is very, very hot during summer but would be a total ice-box in winter if it had tile floors and so on. It's hard enough to heat as it is.