To hate this English Summer and the boiling hot weather we’re having?

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It’s so hot! Appallingly so. I am in the lightest of t shirts and yet still sweating. I love the sun on holiday but hate it in this country, it seems more a blistering kind of heat, disgustingly so. Hope the summer ends very soon! Bring back Autumn/Winter!!

NC because people display negativity to those that dare say they hate the sun

Meeting??? Heating!

I think its forecast to cool down next week.

So one really hot week versus a very miserable, long cold winter that went on for months and months (my heating was on in August last year) and I think the heat sufferers, on the whole, are in the right country.

This is where I live & where DS1 & DD2 live.

It NEVER looks like this - not for 5 straight days. (Well, the Somerset one quite often does, but the Lancashire ones would usually have some cloud & rain in there too). DD2’s neighbour is off to Tenerife this week & is really fed up that she’ll be missing this (though of course Tenerife is a bit prettier )

It was 28 here yesterday, which was a bit OTT, but the rest of the week looks quite manageable.

otoh our boiler was broken down this week & the engineer has just whapped the thermostat up to 28 to test it - hope that won’t be for long!

I find people who can't tolerate the heat weird. It's not hot here compared to Europe and I've never heard Europeans complaining until it gets towards 40. It's just glorious!!

So that pregant lady was being unreasonable for not having ‘your sense of humour?’

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Thermostat is still up!!!

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This sort of temperature - ie consistently over 25-26deg is hardly ever sustained for more than a week or two in the UK. I know we have some exceptional years but the weather until this summer year this week has been quite nice (thunderstorms and a bit of humidity withstanding) . Really it won't last very long. We will be back to normal UK summer weather of high teens and low 20 temperatures soon I am sure

I'm off to Lanzarote in 2 weeks and I swear to god it better be cool here otherwise I've wasted 2.5k for nothing

HipHop - this is my entire body in heat. I take 4 antihistamines a day, and the itching on the palms of my hands and soles of my feet is unbearable
I'm ok lazing about in it and like it but if I have to go do a physical job in a polyester tunic this is what I look like!
It's not prickly heat, it's cholinergic urticaria which is like heat rash x 10000

@hiphopfrog could that possibly be something to do with the fact that they're used to those sorts of temperatures...? They'd be freezing their arsed off here in winter!

What temperature does it have to be to be considered a heatwave anyone know or does it have to be consistently about a certain temperature?

I’m not happy. Anything above 24/25 and without a breeze makes me feel shit. I’m hot, sweaty, sweaty armpits, sweaty bum. I’m about to have the second shower of the day. On top of this I have a million things happening at school and nursery so I’ve been running around like a sweat ball all morning, and then I’ll do it again in the afternoon. It’s shit.

I am working for thr next 7 days so will miss most of the rest of this beautiful weather.We havent had humid nights and have closed curtains / blinds on the sunny side of the house so that it is cool.I wasnt working yesterday so spent it under a parasol,reading and retreating every now and then to cool down.

Heatwaves are 5 or more consecutive days above the average expected temperatures.

I'm pretty sure this is one but I admit I haven't memorised the averages.

Either way it's bloody hot out there! Had to go get something from my car and it's like a wall of heat inside.

I hate the winter, not particularly because of the cold but because of the dark mornings and dark afternoons/evenings. All I thought about the solstice was "oh no now it will start getting that bit darker each day". I also hate jumpers as they make me feel so constricted. The dark makes me really depressed too.

I would prefer it to be sunny but a bit cooler BUT I would far far rather this heat than the endless cold, rainy, dark days. I live in the Midlands and had the heating on from September to April continuously. Even in May I had the heating on at least twice. My DH, who doesn't feel the cold as much as me, switched the heating on two weeks ago because it was so cold here.

I don't know where the poster lives who said it has been hot since April but they certainly don't live where I do.

I am having trouble sleeping and Sunday spent the day in bed because of a migraine. Despite that I would still rather this weather.

Heatwaves are 5 or more consecutive days above the average expected temperatures.

Different averages in different regions

Yes the averages probably vary right down to towns.

(Those are maximum and minimums though, not averages?)

It was 27 degrees where I live yesterday. It’s unbearable because I live in an eco house and my job is ironing, which I do in my bedroom and therefore feel I can legitimately complain about it :D

(Those are maximum and minimums though, not averages?)

Yes, sorry, those are the temps that have be reached over the full 5 days (for an official heatwave) but they’re based on the regional averages

loving it here. Winter was so long and awful, and I'm a winter preferrer/heat sufferer myself

I just have to make sure windows are open, I have a fan wherever I need it so at my desk and anywhere I might sit

If it's really unbearable and muggy at night I sleep either

after a long, cool bath

still sopping wet from the shower

with a few wet flannels on my bedside table/on me

with the fan on

with just a sheet rather than duvet

sometimes a couple of those combined

daytime just loose thin clothes and the fan do the job nicely

Love the hot weather when I get chance to sit out and enjoy it but with a 1 year old this rarely happens!

I’m with you, OP. Nothing better than sitting in the sun on holiday when there’s a pool and cocktails but when you’ve got to get on with daily life in it and have a whingy, sweaty uncomfortable six month old clinging to you, it gets a bit much! Hopefully it’ll be as nice at weekend when DH is home and we can enjoy it as a family