To want this heatwave over with

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Is anyone else suffering a cold in this heatwave?

im really struggling with how hot it is. Got a cold ( which I find weird as I’ve never had a cold in the summer months) I just want this heatwave to be over and done with

I travelled to London on Thursday from another part of the uk (by plane) that’s also having its own heat wave. The heat in London is on another level and I love the heat usually. Walking around central London was intense. Like having hot hairdryer blasted in your face everytime you walked outside. Heading to an outdoor concert today and hoping it will have cooled down a bit. The heat yesterday in London reminded me of the heat in Türkiye last July.

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@Peony1985 that’s a very naive view. Sadly some unwell people won’t be ok. Look at the increased death rates during a heatwave. Also many people’s medical conditions get chronically worse after a heatwave like this. I can only assume you’re young & healthy with that attitude. But age comes to us all in time.

Unfortunately that’s still the British mentality. If you feel the cold it’s sympathy all around. Still taboo to be unwell in heat though. And for me it’s definitely not just a few days. I feel unwell days before the high pressure and humidity set in and certainly feel like I’m recovering from flu for a long time after the hot weather finally ends.

Stay off these threads then.

I know not everybody can afford heating so I don't want to be glib but let's not forget as a general rule it's a hell of a lot easier to get warm in winter than it is to cool down in a heatwave.

Yes, better to go over the the thread for people who are actually enjoying the heatwave.

The only trouble is that it is full of posts from people moaning about it.

All these people saying (to paraphrase) just get on with it, it is only a week (two months in a row so far) people are so pathetic etc etc

I challenge them to visit hospital wards. My mum is 71 and is in with several broken bones, she cannot move. Her ward is sweltering. I reiterate she cannot even stand up - she is stuck. Like being tied down in an oven. Her blood pressure dropped dangerously low in the heat yeaterday. Rinse and repeat for all the other people on her ward and in hospitals up and down the country.

That is just one example of how the heat for even just a week at a time is not good at all.

Some people. 😡 They're fed up of hearing people saying how unpleasant this weather is and I'm fed up of hearing their heartless bullshit.

I feel a bit fluey too.
I think it may be connected to having a fan blowing air at my face at night.
Could be wrong.

Most hospitals near me (Hampshire) are on critical alert due to the heat so I think those in denial about the serious health implications & increased death rates of a heatwave like this are either devoid of normal empathy or sense, or just enjoy causing ill feeling on threads like this, which seems a common hobby in this modern age. It’s the only logical reason.

Yep I sleep downstairs with my pooch when it’s very hot. It was her birthday yesterday so I took her to the beach which cheered her up a lot.

I find it baffling to see talk of this heatwave without talk of ending fossil fuels.

This is the new weather. It is only going to get worse and worse.

If you don’t like it, start to talk about what’s causing it.

@Skinnysaluki Many of us probably are, or making changes in our lives to help fight climate change and draw attention to it, but that may be on more specific threads. It’s also ok to have a general support chat/thread just on how people are coping physically & mentally too. Sometimes it helps when people don’t feel so alone coping with it.

I've just had air conditioning installed and I'm still struggling so God knows what it's like for people without it. Although I have felt faint after 5 minutes in the garden so it was necessary. I can't seem to control my body temperature and usually have the thermostat set at 17C. I'm one of those people who doesn't really sweat much but I feel like that keeps the heat trapped inside my body.

I've just been stuck on the sofa for days and I feel really depressed and my dog is restless.

@MrFluffyDogIsMyBestFriend same here with my dogs. Think it will be cool enough tonight for an evening woodland walk. Getting out with my dogs daily into nature is my sanity.

I also find it baffling although there's not much point talking about it. I find it odd that people are comparing 2026 with 1976 as if 2026 is also some sort of anomaly and that things will return to 'normal' next year. It's bizarre.

I don't know if you're aware but in my county at least (Suffolk), they are now incinerating most of the plastic rubbish to turn into energy. They don't talk about it much and still call it recycling but it seems we've taken a step backwards.

People have been trying to stop fossil fuels for a very long time and I think the carbon being released is still increasing. I think at this point it would be a bit delusional to think that we can reverse climate change.

I'll admit I'm coming round to the idea of heat pumps.

Sorry you're struggling too. Yes me too...I'm cooped up in a small bungalow with two autistic young adult sons and I could cry :(. I could do with finding some woodland. We have a few huge oak trees outside our bungalow and the difference in temperature is huge...we need to be planting trees everywhere.

Why?

I agree totally, sorry you’re struggling too. Just wish the powers that be woke up & started doing something, but nothing seems to ever change. Such a worry for the younger generations who have their whole lives ahead of them still.

Aircon stops your body acclimatising the the warmth outside.

Because I think we do need to be serious about cutting down emissions even though I personally would prefer to use a traditional boiler.

The problem with a thread like this, is for some people the heatwave is high 20s and for others it's high 30s. The former is pleasant, the latter is horrendous. I've been in a classroom this week where the temperature (on a science cupboard thermometer) was 37 degrees. We were completely off curriculum as it was too hot for teaching and learning (so all we were doing was being expensive, overqualified childcare) and it was horribly hot and humid to the point of feeling ill. I was just necking rehydration sachets at every opportunity because I was definitely suffering from heat exhaustion. It isn't lovely, it's a danger to health.

DH works in an air conditioned office. He certainly doesn't seem less able to acclimatise than me. Regardless, does it not occur to you that the poster has air con because they can't cope with heat rather than the other way around?

Sorry that was to @cinquanta