To be terrified of the coming summer?

[screamingbanshees]

Last year there were 24,000+ heat-related deaths due to the heatwave, and the temperatures here were astronomical. It was the worst summer I've ever experienced, sweating constantly, sticking to every surface, always dehydrated, warm water coming out the cold tap, and sweating as soon as I stepped out of the bath. I also had a very unhappy, sweaty, screamy 1.5 year old!

AIBU to be absolutely dreading this year? Apparently the Met Office has claimed 2023 will have an even hotter summer. I don't know if I can bear it again. DP and I are thinking of booking a holiday just to be somewhere liveable. This is also the first winter I've actually enjoyed because of the relief from the heat.

We are in a south-facing modern well-insulated house, lots of glass on the south walls, open plan so portable air con units would be useless. It was atrocious the last two summers. We opened upstairs windows at night and closed all curtains and windows after 10am but still had a few dangerous days. We would go to the cinema, supermarket, anywhere air conditioned in the day to try to avoid health consequences.

In a few weeks we are having solar panels and air conditioning installed at a cost of around £17k because this is only going to get worse. Fingers crossed it works.

I love the heat, last year felt like a real summer for once, not including the four excessive days we had here, southeast.

YANBU! Lol I don’t know why some people are saying that the hot days were only 4-5 days. I remmeber it being hot for weeks on end. I was pregnant at the time and now in this summer my baby will be like 9-11 months so I am dreading it too!

FFS-is this just a post to get attention or a real fucking issue? Aghast this bs

@screamingbanshees - ds1, his dw and our dgd live in the south, and last year they said their portable air conditioner was an absolute life saver. They kept it in the bedroom, and our daughter in law and the baby spent most of their time in there.

If you are seriously considering one, I’d get it sooner rather than later - before everyone else get them.

I did consider one, last year, but I live near Glasgow, and it really wasn’t as bad up here - we managed with fans and windows open.

YANBU. I loathe the hot weather. If I could just lie in the shade, with a couple of attendants operating a fan and bringing me G&Ts, it might be acceptable. Otherwise, no thanks. I wish I could aestivate until temperatures return to something more moderate. I am a northern European and I like northern European weather; if I wanted to live in the tropics, I'd bloody well move there.

I’m 100% with you on this OP. Last summer was absolutely unbearable. Us folk in the UK who don’t have air con really suffered I think. It made me feel quite unwell. Lack of sleep, rooms too hot, fans just blowing warm air around, I’m terrified of having to many larger windows open because of burglars, so little windows opened and to be fair no air coming in to cool us down, it was only warm air. We kept curtains closed, bought a humidifier and it was still unbearable.

so no, YANBU to be worried about it. If 2023 is even worse, then I don’t know how the hell we’ll
cope with it. Winter has been a blessing for me, I will miss it so much as the warmer weather sets in. I dread it like you are. Let’s hope the predictions aren’t true and it’s cooler. 🙏🏻

Bollox
Sit there in your big ole cars worrying how hot it might be in the summer?! And then all mean that you can't get on your planes to go on summer holibobs!
Like I said
Bollox

I found last summer awful too but it was because just 4 weeks after my little one was born, the temp was a very balmy 39 degrees - and I live in the North East! When I think back to it, the unbearable heat was on and off for around 2 weeks, so whilst it was awful and (at times!) scary to be in it with such a young infant, I could do it again. And so can you!

If it is weighing on your mind already then yes, an air conditioning unit or two might be a good idea for you, and let’s just hope any exceptional heat this year is short lived!

The met office can only predict about 5 days ahead accurately. I would concern yourself about summer,

Seriously? It wasn’t that bad, a few hot days and a few hot, stuffy nights which are worse but hardly enough to invoke that kind of dramatic reaction surely.

It was awful. Maybe a month or so where I would try to leave the house with my son by 8 to be home by 9:30/10am as by then it was too hot to be outside. We’d spend the rest of the day indoors with the curtains closed trying to stay cool. Summer was ruined, we didn’t go for days out or do anything nice as it was too hot. I’m sure I sound melodramatic now but that’s how it felt! YANBU OP, I am worried too! My lesson learned is do more in spring and keep actual summer plans fairly low key.

I’m in the South East was hot outdoors last summer,
I don’t enjoy it too hot..
It’s always cool in here, live in a 300 year old ex coach House, great if it’s really hot as walls so thick and small windows, garden only gets a little sun too .. bad in the spring but pleased in heatwave
Definitely not so good in the winter though as now all open plan inside brr
Expensive to heat … all swings and roundabouts
And we do enjoy a good moan about the weather lol

There was so much scaremongering about it. Get some fans.
Looking forward to it.

If you really suffer then why not invest in purchasing or renting an air conditioning unit instead of a holiday? I’m looking forward to those long hot days no end!

I bought an aircon unit because I was sick of the relentless heat in the south last uear. Best decision of probably my life. They work wonders, had it on upstairs during the day where I wfh, then moved to bedroom to cool that ready for bedtime. Bliss. It was about £250.

Hi, could you be a bit Peri? Heat can start to bring on mini flushes and because you can’t get cool you can feel a bit stifled by repeated waves. It can be quite unpleasant- and when the full on menopause starts, lead to a vicious cycle triggering heat stroke, vomiting and dehydration. I would never have thought it before getting there, even with all the recent talk about meno symptoms - I don’t think it’s really acknowledged as an issue that can be particularly bad for some.

V unlikely to repeat this summer.

But yes it was a bit much (London here)

I usually love the sun and warm weather. Last year was great from the point of view of being able to holiday in the U.K. and it was like being abroad. That said I have a dog and I do remember it was way too hot to walk him after 8.30 am most morning ( I live in the south). I need to exercise before work and it was almost too warm by 8 am on a lot of days so I became lethargic and my fitness levels have dropped. I remember being sweaty and uncomfortable in my office in back to back calls. All of that was inconvenient but not unbearable.
However… there were 2 days in a row where it went up past 40 degrees. By 10 am if I stood in my garden it was so intense I felt unnerved. By 2 pm I thought it was quite scary and suddenly imagined what it would be like to live every day like this. For the first time I properly woke up to the fact that climate change is real, that things need to change and I need to play my own part in that where I can.

So I have looked for ways I can make a difference to reduce my carbon footprint and started to reduce my energy usage, recycle a lot more and travel less. I invested in solar panels and battery as it was 0% finance over 3 years and I hear they also fund some of it below certain incomes. I drive a hybrid car and eventually will try to move off petrol for good. Currently holidays are U.K. only and I work from home as much as possible. I’m sure there is a lot more I can do. I’m still learning and listening. It would be good to think OP that instead of just dreading the problem you and others become a part of the solution even in small ways.

This problem you dread is a man made one. We are all part of it.

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Buy an aircon unit and wear loose clothes..
Yes it was awful, but not that awful..

The endless wailing and handwringing from my English DH and English colleagues during the "heatwave" last year honestly never failed to make me laugh. You didn't have a heatwave, you had a few days of quite warm temperature. People complaining of not being able to sleep because of the heat... Good god, the dramatics. Most English people act like complete idiots in any temperature extreme, hot or cold, and having lived in both truly freezing countries (regularly below minus 10 and minus 20) and truly hot countries (weeks and months of 40 and 45 degree heat) - honestly, grow up!

I will buy bamboo sheets for my beds, some electric fans, some handholding fans. If necessary I will buy air conditioner but I don’t think it would be that hot..

I live in the Midlands and don’t recognise this description of last summer at all. “Uncomfortable for a few nights” would be my description.

We invested in an ac unit, it was bliss! Yes it was far too hot, especially to work in schools. I also carried a small but powerful 'polar' fan around with me. X

It was a long summer. The last few have been tbh.

Im in Scotland and was utterly miserable! Dreading this summer 😭

Some people just don't get it