AIBU to hate this heatwave?

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Ugh everyone keeps telling me to make the most of the sunshine but i am finding it unbearable.

Lunch break at work - everyone chose to sit outside in the sun. I joined them to be sociable. Within five minutes i felt as though i was melting into the grass. Meanwhile, my colleagues were going on and on about how nice the sun was. I am extremely pale (despite my dark features - i do not tan at all) and burn very quickly. Despite having smothered my face and arms in factor 50 this morning, they were red from just five minutes of sitting in the sun. I had to come back in for the air conditioning. My scalp felt like it was crawling due to being so hot (definitely not lice!). My underwear felt like it was sticking to me.

I feel sick and tired as soon as I go outside in this heat. Is it normal for the heat to affect me so much? I was dreading home time as the walk to the car park from my work exit is about 15 mins. It almost killed me.

Then, when I got into my car, I couldn't touch the steering wheel for around ten minutes as it was so hot. I had to open the windows and stand outside of my car for those ten minutes as I couldn't breathe at all in there, even with leaving a small gap in all windows earlier in the day. And it takes a few minutes of the engine being on for the AC to kick in. Even then, the air felt hot to me.

Just home and went to hang the washing out. Almost fainted. I just felt so heavy and tired and out of breath (normally I'm quite fit!). As soon as I come back inside, I'm right as rain. Definitely not heat stroke or anything as it happens every single time the heat hits us and disappears as soon as I enter the shade. Year after year the heat affects me like this.

Also - as a side note - the wasps and flies and beasties! They are everywhere. Every time i throw one back out of the house, another two turn up.

I hate the summer! Surely I'm not the only one? Autumn is by far the best month. Mild temperatures and lovely, crunchy leaves (and no wasps!).

The fan is so noisy and dries my eyes out. Nights are too hot to sleep without it on and its too noisy to sleep with windows open.

YADNBU

I'm normally a bit of a sun worshipper and one of the 'stop moaning about the beautiful warm weather' types but even this is a bit too much for me.

It would be perfect on holiday when you're by the sea/pool and their is air con but it's too much in a country with no air con and houses designed to trap heat because because it's usually cold.

It's been so hot the tarmac has started to melt here. The humidity is a killer too.

In my part of South Yorkshire it is hot but not humid. Maybe that is why I am tolerating this heat quite easily.

Autumn is by far the best month

I think some autistic people probably love and relish heat - it's a huge spectrum after all.

For others like me, it actually induces crying or raging meltdowns (which are fucking horrible and happen regardless of company, so think "very very important meeting at work" as much as "lying on sofa alone in flat"). For me it's anger followed by crying followed by vomiting - there's some sort of sensory processing mishap going on there.

It also prevents sleep which makes other sensory issues even worse than usual. And there's no escape, it's always hot outside right now.

Add to the fact that everyone around you is loving it and you're supposed to say the nice social lies of how great it is with conviction, and people get really angry if you don't, and it's all really stressful.

I am deeply sympathetic to people who have the reverse and get ill in cold weather - but I can't wait for my brain to let me be me again. It's 24/7 right now.

I love it, 28 here but with a breeze, but can sympathise. My least favourite thing about it is when people from Dubai, Australia etc tell us how ‘it’s not even hot’ and how they live and work in 100000 degree heat, in an oven, with the heating on blah blah blah IRRELEVANT. Really annoys me! I enjoy this weather because I’d have ANYTHING over rain and I know the weather will change soon enough

5 pages in and no one has complained about chub rub yet?

Chub rub is preventable and there are solutions and products for it so im unsurprised.

YANBU.

I love sunshine but can't cope with heat.
Low 20s is the perfect temperature, outdoor activity is still enjoyable and the house doesn't turn into some sort of greenhouse.
The worst is the sleepless nights.

Where I live it is low 20s, and with a breeze. I am loving it.

That's perfect Lonicera !

Not a fan of very hot weather, but for me it's not so much the heat but the arsehole behaviour - there was so much aggression around the town yesterday - motorists screaming at other motorists/pedestrians, parents screaming at children.

We have a town festival on today - starts off as a lovely family day, degenerates into a drunken free for all by mid afternoon. there is a sound system in the main square belting out music, and our next door but one neighbour has just put really loud music on in their garden, so we've got RNB which I hate anyway, competing with La Bamba, at ear shattering volumes. I absolutely hate it, and we've no chance of a downpour at 7pm which has put paid to their 'fun' in other years.

I know everyone has a right to enjoy themselves, but here is absolutely no thought that some people's enjoyment may be another person's abject misery. Why every activity these days seems to be accompanied by loud music I have no idea. It just seems to exacerbate bad temper and aggression.

I always wonder why it's called a heatwave, it's just summer

Not going to end anytime soon OP.

YANBU though, it is oppressive.

According to google, average summer temperature in England is 15.6C. so it really isn't 'just summer' at the moment!

I agree '@raglansleeve. Defo a heatwave.

Definition of a heatwave...

a prolonged period of abnormally hot weather.

@Raglansleeve

OMD don't get me started on the mass summer activities that seem to take over everything.

For those that hate the insects, I had great success last year burning wild mint scented candles, wasps hate the smell so even if one did fly in it pretty much flew straight out.

Anyho, this year has been even better using an electric essential oil diffuser with the oils peppermint, eucalyptus and lemongrass. I intended to target wasps again but since I've used it I've had barely any insects at all, just the odd fly.

The diffuser I got holds enough water to run for about 12 hours on the intermittent setting so I leave it on all day and night.

I’m 31 weeks pregnant and really struggling with the heat. Forecast to be 28-30 all week here too, just the thought of that makes me want to cry.

I can't bear it and want to get on a plane and spend the rest of the summer in Greenland or somewhere else cold or decamp to a hotel with the best air con.

That said, for the first time in weeks, the temperature here has just cooled off a tiny bit (it's about 24) and it feels blissful.

It’s so hot where I am that I left a can of coke in the car, came back and the entire rim has come away.

Nope. I'm 31 weeks pregnant tomorrow and the heat is making me so uncomfortable and giving me the rage. (Not helped by a rather painful dose of SPD but that's beside the point.)

Apparently it’s lasting for another month. Kill me now.

Heres my prediction, it will be hot until around the 20th July then the heavens will open and it will be rainy for a few weeks till the children go back to school! Not that it would bother me at all, but not good for the children and parents in the summer hols. August can be an odd month for weather as it is and is usually a bit more rainy/ humid.
I was sweating so much last night and couldnt sleep, how people can say they love this heat is beyond me.