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sickofthisshite000 · 2022-08-14T14:09:04+00:00

I know there have been numerous threads on this already but OMG, I cannot taking this sodding heat any more. I actually feel sick today because it's so oppressive and I can't get anything done around the house, which is like a furnace. Normally it's like this for a few days in the summer before cooling again, but it's been about six weeks of intense heat now in the south-east. It's looking like tomorrow is the last of it thankfully - I sodding well hope so. Anyone else completely fed-up?

TinaTeaspoons · 15/08/2022 21:39

It has not been just 2 weeks of warm weather. It's been above 24C most days for a long, long time. This is not normal weather and if you're one of the lucky ones enjoying it, finding it comfortable and glorious then that's your opinion but I personally cannot bear it. And no, I am not obese or have any health issues. It's just uncomfortably bloody hot. I am tired of-

Not being able to sleep as am melting onto the duvet which then makes me feel really unhygienic.
The washing machine going on constantly
Feeling ill with thumping headaches and vomiting
DC being ill and also feeling super irritated and not eating or sleeping properly
Travelling on the tube in this weather. A new level of hell
Sweating buckets just walking to the shops
No rain for I don't know how long. It's not natural and is a real concern in many ways.
Our poor cat is suffering big time
Being told by some (admittedly only on here) that it's glorious and that its weird, ott or almost rude not to love every second of it.

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sickofthisshite000 · 15/08/2022 21:41

We had about 5 minutes (if that) of gentle rain earlier… and now it’s gone. FFS.

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restingbitchface30 · 15/08/2022 21:43

I’ve had enough. I’ve got 2 week old twins so haven’t been able to go anywhere as I’m not taking them out in the heat. I’ve had to sit and sleep in my slightly cooler living room 24/7. Kept curtains closed to keep sun out. It’s depressing!

horriblehumans · 15/08/2022 21:44

I personally find the posters who are enjoying this heat and lack of rain - specifically the ones who don’t mention any concerns about climate change in their posts - incredibly naive, selfish and short sighted.

wentworthinmate · 15/08/2022 21:52

Had to take the dog to the vets with heat stress. I have sat with curtains closed and two fans on the go but the poor thing was not well. Not as severe as heat stroke thankfully but I wouldn’t want to have had a fur coat on in this! My south facing living room and garden were for once a curse.

carefullycourageous · 15/08/2022 21:53

horriblehumans · 15/08/2022 21:44

I personally find the posters who are enjoying this heat and lack of rain - specifically the ones who don’t mention any concerns about climate change in their posts - incredibly naive, selfish and short sighted.

Yes same. Leaaving aside the longer term worries around climate change, the impact on this years' harvest is really very worrying, food is expensive enough already - people must be either very thick or very strange to not understand this is not a good weather forecast.

Bookloverjay · 15/08/2022 21:53

I am totally over this heat. I need sleep.

This heat has made me restless legs syndrome so much worse. Was sat outside at 1am last night

No rain or storm here in west yorkshire weather app says 36% chance of rain at 11pm and I don't think its cooled down that much either

fetchacloth · 15/08/2022 21:54

Same here OP, I'm just completely fed up with feeling constantly covered in perspiration. It's driving me mad🙄
I've had the last 10 days off work in the hope of doing some painting but it's just been too hot for that.
I'm going back to work tomorrow just as it's getting cooler 😑

carefullycourageous · 15/08/2022 21:54

sickofthisshite000 · 15/08/2022 21:41

We had about 5 minutes (if that) of gentle rain earlier… and now it’s gone. FFS.

The forecast for tomorrow was always wetter, I do hope it happens - but hopefully not so much we get flash floods

There was a grass fire in a beauty spot today, it didn't look big but it was worrying to see.

RayneDance · 15/08/2022 21:56

When it's about 25 and sunny with a good breeze..... heavenly.

But there has been zero breeze,the air is still...it feels polluted and dirty!
I can't take the children far because I can't travel on the heat and I don't trust the trains to have working air con and I need a breeze and they have trapped all the windows shut!

gnilliwdog · 15/08/2022 22:06

carefullycourageous · 15/08/2022 21:53

Yes same. Leaaving aside the longer term worries around climate change, the impact on this years' harvest is really very worrying, food is expensive enough already - people must be either very thick or very strange to not understand this is not a good weather forecast.

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I agree with you both. I actually think we should consider banning non essential car trips and flights. They add to pollution levels, particularly around cities, making it even worse for people living there. People use this transport for non essential reasons without thinking about how they are increasing greenhouse emissions, making the planet hotter. I wonder how those who like it now will enjoy it at 50 degrees.

TallulahTumeric · 15/08/2022 22:09

Came back from a fortnight in Turkey a few days ago. First week was 40ish degrees, second week was slightly cooler. It was MUCH more manageable there - air con, no boiling myself to death cooking tea and just not having to do the daily grind makes a huge difference.

We had a small shower of rain earlier. It was bliss stood outside in it! Not cooled down much at all though.

Vapeyvapevape · 15/08/2022 22:15

We've just had quite a good downpour and I'm so relieved. I have low blood pressure and the heat seems to make my light headedness worse, every time I stand up I feel faint. Spring and autumn are my favourite time of the year.

withaspongeandarustyspanner · 15/08/2022 22:26

I'm in Wales at a festival. We had thunder, lightning and torrential rain this afternoon. Normally, it would be awful, but it's such a relief.

Lovetok · 15/08/2022 22:42

I hear you, OP. I just said to my husband that I don’t think I’ll ever feel cool again. And as for the climate change issue… extremely worrying.

ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 15/08/2022 22:48

Is anyone around who remembers 1976? Is it comparable?

Babyboy2020 · 15/08/2022 22:48

My almost 2yr old son had a febrile convulsion on Thursday. Viral infection plus bacterial UTI led to a raging fever out of nowhere, not helped in any way shape or form by this heat.

I'm terrified. Hes never been so poorly. We have been in and out of hospital, he wouldn't keep down liquids or food or meds. Sitting on the living room floor with him burning up and shivering with fever while he vomits and sobs in the 28 degree house we are desperately trying to cool at midnight, to be told we need to drive him back to a and e as all the ambulances are busy was a genuinely low point.

1am cool baths as he spikes to 39 and then 40 degrees despite being pumped full of the maximum amount of calpol and neurofen we can give him. Shivering whilst burning up as I try to soothe and calm him in my arms in front of the only open window in the house that has a breeze. The heat needs to go. Now. He has never been so poorly and I have never been so scared.

I'm also exhausted from being awake all night to get drugs into him on a fixed schedule and monitor his temperature to get to the spikes in time. Theres a fan on in his room. The window is open. There is as much airflow in the house as I can get. I spend all day either opening or shutting windows and blinds on each side of the house to maximise the cool air and keep the sun out.

I've always liked the hot weather but right now I hate the world and everything in it conspiring to get my son to cook himself.

gnilliwdog · 15/08/2022 22:55

@Babyboy2020 your poor son. It must be exhausting for you. Has he been prescribed an anti emetic? And do you have rehydration salts?

carefullycourageous · 15/08/2022 22:55

ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 15/08/2022 22:48

Is anyone around who remembers 1976? Is it comparable?

No, it is not comparable, because we have had 45 years since and climate change has made the overall picture very different.

We have to stop referring back to '76 - this is a right-wing/climate change denier strategy to make it seem that things are not that bad.

Things are very worrying.

Motnight · 15/08/2022 22:58

Babyboy2020 · 15/08/2022 22:48

My almost 2yr old son had a febrile convulsion on Thursday. Viral infection plus bacterial UTI led to a raging fever out of nowhere, not helped in any way shape or form by this heat.

I'm terrified. Hes never been so poorly. We have been in and out of hospital, he wouldn't keep down liquids or food or meds. Sitting on the living room floor with him burning up and shivering with fever while he vomits and sobs in the 28 degree house we are desperately trying to cool at midnight, to be told we need to drive him back to a and e as all the ambulances are busy was a genuinely low point.

1am cool baths as he spikes to 39 and then 40 degrees despite being pumped full of the maximum amount of calpol and neurofen we can give him. Shivering whilst burning up as I try to soothe and calm him in my arms in front of the only open window in the house that has a breeze. The heat needs to go. Now. He has never been so poorly and I have never been so scared.

I'm also exhausted from being awake all night to get drugs into him on a fixed schedule and monitor his temperature to get to the spikes in time. Theres a fan on in his room. The window is open. There is as much airflow in the house as I can get. I spend all day either opening or shutting windows and blinds on each side of the house to maximise the cool air and keep the sun out.

I've always liked the hot weather but right now I hate the world and everything in it conspiring to get my son to cook himself.

That sounds awful. Wishing your son all the best.

Toooldforthisshit49 · 15/08/2022 22:58

Not sure if PP realise but we've had it pretty hot here in the north of Scotland 28/29 degrees, believe or not it's not always cold and wet contrary to popular belief 😂

Emsb2022 · 15/08/2022 23:28

Sums it up

PeloAddict · 15/08/2022 23:44

My app says 17c but it feels much warmer. Still can't sleep as I'm too bloody hot!

Ineke · 15/08/2022 23:59

The bath has been filled with cool water for frequent plunges. Also have a neck fan now at work. My house is cool and a relief from the outside. I have a shaded cool patch with a hammock in the garden. This is all bearable, what was not bearable was work on Saturday in a theatre with no A/C. 10 hours, no air. The only way I survived was having a cup of ice and holding the cubes against my skin. Each large cup of ice melted within the hour. I must have drunk gallons of water. This is how it’s looking for the future, very scary stuff.

CPL593H · 16/08/2022 00:11

ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 15/08/2022 22:48

Is anyone around who remembers 1976? Is it comparable?

I'm neither right wing or a climate change denier, but was around in 1976. I imagine you're asking how it felt/was like then @ImJustMadAboutSaffron

Midlander (then) so we had standpipes in the streets for water for a while as the Welsh valleys that supplied the Midlands had dried up and people queued up with buckets and kettles etc. We were encouraged to share bathwater and in fact bathe together when possible, which was the source of much salacious mirth. There was an invasion of ladybirds, masses of them, people scraping them off their cars. Everywhere seemed parched and brown and brittle and the trees turned colour too soon. There were wildfires and much concern about the crops.

I'm not speaking for everyone else but I don't remember the humidity being the sort of issue it has been in recent years, but maybe because I was a teenager it seemed better. It was very and consistently hot though (and I got heatstroke and terribly burned on holiday because the idea of covering up and sun safety was unknown!)