Fuck this fucking heat

[heatwavehell2]

I’m in the SE and this current heatwave has been utter hell. I have about 10 extremely itchy mosquito bites from being forced to sleep with the windows open as it’s so darn hot. I say sleep, but I’ve been waking up in the night absolutely sweltering and am shattered as a result. Having the windows open also means I can hear every car on the street and every noise the neighbours make, further disturbing my sleep.

I’ve had sweat pouring down my face for most of the day as my commute was like a furnace and our office air con is barely adequate.

There have been endless flies buzzing around the house and garden and around my cat’s food bowl. The cat is suffering in the heat and was sick in the garden and about 200 flies landed on that. I had to scoop it up just before eating dinner - grim.

At work I can barely concentrate due to the aforementioned lack of air con. My brain just feels fuzzy and like it can’t function properly. I have zero energy and feel irritable, grumpy and impatient.

The garden has turned to dust - most of my flowers are dead and the lawn is yellow and crispy.

On top of all that shit and most importantly, the whole thing poses seriously worrying questions about climate change, whether this is the new normal and if it is, what sort of future my kids are going to have.

England is not built for these temperatures. Thank fuck it’s going to rain tomorrow.

I spent a lot of yesterday with my feet in a big tub of cool water which was a huge help. Not quite so awful here today thankfully. Im hugely looking forward to it being cooler tomorrow.

Not the point but do you normally sleep with the window closed? That makes me feel a bit odd

I am miserable. I hate it. Can’t wait for it to fucking rain and dip 10 degrees tomorrow.

It’s utterly suffocating.

Ah, you are my people. I’m in Essex and right now it is unbelievable. It’s quarter to eleven and I am so hot I could scream. I just went for a walk and when I returned through the front door I gasped at how hot the living room was. I am sitting here dripping with sweat. My back is glued to the chair and my arms are stuck to the arm rests. By late afternoon today I think my mind had begun to go. I was talking to someone and they stared at me and asked if I was ok. I was literally talking gibberish.

At night I have all the windows open, but then I’m woken by cars with souped up engines and exhausts that bang and explode. So many houses have been built around here that the traffic is awful. And because the houses are all jammed on top of one another, the heat can’t escape. This is a glimpse of future Britain - unbearably hot, unbearably crowded, and unbearably noisy.

@heatwavehell2 only 2 suggestions. Fly screens at every window and door and wax ear plugs for the early morning noise. Helps a lot!

Come to Ireland..it is barely 20. We are still waiting for summer to properly arrive...... and it is going to rain for the rest of the week.

Yeah but we keep being told climate change is affecting everywhere with more heat so we are getting misinformation?

In the East Midlands. Walked out of a co-op yesterday and genuinely felt like I walked into a sauna it was unbearable, I’m not usually a weather whinger but my god!

My children will not go to sleep 😫.

I've been tempted to hose down the hottest side of the house to try to cool everythibg down. Would that work?

YANBU.

The weather is seriously unpleasant to put up with and also worrying from a climate change perspective.

Too hot to go anywhere with our 8mo old in the daytime except the air conditioned supermarkets 😂

No.

Average heats (climate) are increasing. That doesn’t mean ‘it’s always hot everywhere all at once’ (weather).

Also southeast… also sweating like a pig. Window wide open hardly any breeze and I know it will be yet another night I struggle to sleep

I love it.

I teach food and we’ve been baking today, 7 ovens on in the classroom, plus the tumble on constantly. No air con. Just a couple of windows that open a crack. I will admit to being a sweaty mess.

But, I prefer it to freezing in the winter and being terribly cold and at the end of the day, I can walk, do the garden and enjoy the sunshine for a few hours. So no complaints from me.

My great grandfather left the west of Ireland in the 1870s and came to London. Right at this minute I bloody wish he’d stayed! I’d pay £20 for a chilly night with the sound of rain pattering against the window. Here in Essex it’s literally tropical. It feels like trying to sleep in a rainforest during the hot season.

I haven't had a single bad night sleep. I put ice packs that are meant to be in a picnic in my.bed.

One by my feet. One behind my back. One on my torso. Cools the entire body, write down.And I don't have any trouble falling asleep

It's the opposite of a hot water bottle

That's not aircon! Aircon has to vent outside either by a hose (portable one) or an outside unit. This sounds like a dehumidifier or a glorified fan!

I’m a baker. It’s been hellish this summer. When you only pee once per (10 hour) shift and crave salt, you know it’s bad.

It’s been cool up North in lancs today, what a relief… hope all you Southerners feel it tomorrow! It’s awful feeling cooked from the inside, being cold is so much easier to deal with

If it doesn't have a pipe at the back, it basically isn't air con. Why was anyone running that?

Currently in my kids room soothing her as she wakes every 10 mins dripping in sweat. It’s horrible!

It was an aircon unit - without the vent attached. In a dentists waiting room.
The one in the dentists consulting room had the hose attached. Same device doing the exact same thing. One was pumping hot air and cold air into the room. The other was pumping cold air into the room and hot air into the atmosphere outside the building. Same thing but sending the heat into different locations.

A fan clearly isnt the same thing at all (because its a fan) Ditto a dehumifier (which collects moisture from the air because its a dehumidifier) - I own one of each.

Up north it's not as intense but I've been suffering as well. Working in schools it's awful, windows which open an inch, the streams of hundreds of students in the corridors with no ac or ventilation makes me feel like a wilted, sweaty mess.

Have to drink more, which means needdng the loo more, which isn't possible for teachers.

Oh and the smell of BO and lynx/perfume in the classrooms with the inch windows is overbearing.

I feel for you all further south, you get the higher temperatures 🌡 xxx