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To think it can't be that hot?

365 replies

Hop27 · 17/07/2022 22:39

I live in the tropics, we have long periods of hot weather. It's winter with us and it's 24 degrees. I'm in bed at the moment with long PJ's on. (At home sick) and will probably spend the day in leggings and a hoodie. Browsing through mumsnet, thread upon thread about how it's too hot to eat, to sleep, people canceling plans because of the heat! Even in the height of our summer (mid to high 30's) I don't think I've ever not made dinner or cancelled plans. AIBU to think it can't be that hot, or have I been away from the British summer for too long?

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Tinkerblonde1 · 17/07/2022 22:42

Do you have aircon?

redsky21 · 17/07/2022 22:43

Uk homes and buildings are not built for hot weather, they are designed to keep heat in. Hot countries have completely different infrastructure, different working patterns, different lifestyle. Plus being a small island surrounded by water, our heat is very humid.

SunflowerGardens · 17/07/2022 22:43

Here you go 🏅 well done on being better in the heat than everyone in Britain.

Testina · 17/07/2022 22:46

“or have I been away from the British summer for too long?”

Right and in all your scathing smug reading of all these threads, you haven’t read that it’s not the weather of British summer you used to know?

You’re making yourself sound dim.

We’re not all lying you know 🙄

Monoandsix · 17/07/2022 22:46

You've probably acclimatised to the heat TBF. I'd also imagine most tropical countries design their infrastructure around being hot all of the time rather than sub zero for a quarter of the year with a couple of excessively hot days once in few years.

TuftyMarmoset · 17/07/2022 22:48

You know that we’re expecting 40 degrees tomorrow and Tuesday, not just mid to high 30s?

Bestshapeever · 17/07/2022 22:48

Jeez, well good for you. Not occured to you that you might just be used to the heat if you live in the tropics....🙄

WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 17/07/2022 22:48

Have one of these. >>> Biscuit

WatermelonWaveclub · 17/07/2022 22:50

Well, equally I could say surely it's not that cold that you need a hoody and leggings?

FlibbertyGiblets · 17/07/2022 22:50

Oh NOES we are doing Hot wrong, we are beyond heyulp. Save yourself, don't come back.

Bellyups · 17/07/2022 22:51

You do realise our homes/buildings/places of work/working days etc aren’t built with this heat in mind, yes?

Topseyt123 · 17/07/2022 22:53

It is unusually hot, though that is becoming more regular now (can still get some washout summers).

We are about to head into 40⁰ heat, which, as so often in the UK, will be very humid. Of course that won't be the type of summer you remember. It wouldn't be big news if it was a normal occurrence.

Europe is also unusually hot and is fighting wildfires as a result. That is the weather system that will head north to the UK starting anytime now. Nobody is making this up.

JunieBabes · 17/07/2022 22:54

Wonderful wonderful! What a credit to human-kind you are!

Biscuit
ErrolTheDragon · 17/07/2022 22:54

WatermelonWaveclub · 17/07/2022 22:50

Well, equally I could say surely it's not that cold that you need a hoody and leggings?

Well, quite. You're obviously acclimated to tropical heat if you need a hoody at 24°C

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DorothyZbornakIsAQueen · 17/07/2022 22:55

I think the consistently warm/hot temperature may have fried some of your brain cells.

You may not have heard of a little thing called acclimatisation.

Look it up on Google if you need to

Testina · 17/07/2022 22:57

WatermelonWaveclub · 17/07/2022 22:50

Well, equally I could say surely it's not that cold that you need a hoody and leggings?

I thought exactly this!
Nesh.

OrangeBlossomsinthesun · 17/07/2022 22:59

I live in a hot bit of Europe where it's been 44 this week but I would struggle much more with 40 in the UK because it's not set up for it.

ToCaden · 17/07/2022 23:06

My dad visited relatives in austraila (we live in uk). He was on the deck in shorts sunbathing and marvelling at the hot weather.

His australian relative then walked out of the house wrapped in layers complaining how cold it was.

Acclimatation is a thing.

Tater05 · 17/07/2022 23:08

It's just not what we're used to/infrastructure not built for. We sometimes get temperatures of low 30s for a couple of days a year, this is hitting 40 in some places for a few days and at night the air is just heavy, fans just blow hot air back at you and there's no escape from it. Obviously it's the same in many countries where it goes on for way longer, I would personally not cope in that as I'm just not used to intense heat. But it is only a few days, the temperature is nearly halving on Wednesday so you can see why we don't get a chance to acclimatise.

You're in a hoody and leggings at 24 degrees, I would be in a floaty summer dress. Same as how you'd probably be wrapped up in warm layers at 10 degrees and I'd be comfortable in a jumper and leggings.

Orangemoons · 17/07/2022 23:09

I don’t actually think it’s that hot right now, it’s fairly normal summer temps this last week. But maybe different up north? Tomorrow though is a bit different as 40 obviously isn’t normal here.

Orangemoons · 17/07/2022 23:12

I’m also finding the panic on mumsnet very OTT, in real life no one I know is really even discussing it or not eating?!

Crispynoodle · 17/07/2022 23:18

Yup acclimatization is a thing, my friend has just come back from living in Dubai and she's currently stocking up the logs for her wood burning stove!

PeppaPigIsAnnoying · 17/07/2022 23:23

This is what the media does in the uk, it scares people

People were out panic buying toilet roll, then fuel and there's still people that haven't been out of the house for two years because they're so scared of covid. What a way to live

We're going to have a couple of days of hot weather. It will then pass and be forgotten about and the media will then latch on to something out to scare people about

We've already had interest rates are going to double, energy bills are going to be £500 a month. I can't wait for the next installment of the scare mongering

Why worry about something that you can't control?

FrecklesMalone · 17/07/2022 23:28

Oh dear. The sun must have got to you. You realise that the UK has never been 40 degrees before. Therefore, not too surprisingly it's not set up for high temperatures unlike warmer climes