To be utterly pissed off and fed up with this weather….

[TheFairCat]

I know there’s already been loads of threads about it, so apologies for being so original but OH MY GOD!

I’m not usually a particularly whiny person and I don’t ever remember being particularly troubled by hot ( or cold!) weather before but honestly, I feel like I’m going lose my mind!

Maybe it’s combined with hot flushes or something because no one else I know seems to be struggling that much.

I was fine at first; just thought it would only be a couple of days we’d have to suck it up. We
got the fans out, ate a criminal amount of ice lollies and did as little as possible. But now it feels like it’s been a couple of weeks of non stop over 28 degree heat every day where I live. It’s also unbearably humid. Trying to clean the house is grim. I feel like I’m swimming through treacle and my brain is mush. I can’t concentrate on work, I can’t sleep at night. I am constantly uncomfortable and the house has now heated up to such an extent that no room is even close to cool.

I realise this probably sounds ridiculous but I can’t really go out in this heat. I mean I can go to work (though my office has no air con and is also grim) and I can manage the school run and the supermarket etc, but I can’t go for a walk, or run about at the park with the kids. I definitely wouldn’t want go out in town or mooch about the shops, or eat out etc. I don’t want go in the garden because it’s so hot. The swimming pool is lovely but the changing rooms are beyond the pale. There’s no way I could cope with a day out at the zoo or a theme park with the kids.

I’ve never been so hot or so uncomfortable in my life! I have lots of loose, comfortable clothes, summer shoes etc but I still feel like I want to rip my skin off!

Is it just me? Weather forecast seems to be saying 10 more days of heat wave and I could cry!

Aye and even when it's been warm, it still fecking rained ! So fed up of it now

I will have a wee nosey during the week. Thanks so much for your info and help...still gutted about your granny flat though 🤣. Xxx

https://www.mylondon.news/news/transport/almost-2000-north-east-london-34212221

Honestly that muggy rain pisses me off, you get a lovely summer outfit on, walk out the door feeling all braw and the shittin rain starts! Hair wrecked, clothes saturated and the sweat pouring off you! 🤬.

We live down south but have come on holiday to Scotland and I’m so glad it’s 18 degrees and dull!

Quite a few people have the noisy portable units here with the pipe that goes out the window, is that a window unit that you mean, we have a couple but they are very noisy so generally only go on if it's over 30c

I’m getting very ill with it both mentally and physically. Feel faint a lot and probably shouldn’t be at work based on previous experiences and collapses in summer and definitely feel very low and tearful due to lack of sleep. Cursing the people who whine that we never get summer when we absolutely do and for many months too!

It's only these last few years that most of us have even thought we might like AC, I think. It used to be very rare to get days that seemed too hot. You weren't going to spend the money for a couple of days once every three years or something. It's only this year I'm googling the price of portable AC units.

Those portable air con units are quite big and heavy and have to be stored somewhere for about 8 months of the year. we keep 1 in the garage and 1 in the box room upstairs when not in use but if you had a small flat or house it would be a bit of a nuisance, which probably puts some people off getting them

It really depends which part of the UK you live in. Most of Scotland hasn't seen much summer weather over the last week or two.

I'm in Yorkshire, and it has been warm rather than hot since the temperatures dropped considerably a week last Sunday. It is forecast to get warmer this week, but not as hot as London and the South east.

I’m stuck in the East Midlands and resentful of every second in this heat. Even as a child growing up in Wales my worst nightmare was living in a hot country- I never thought I would actually end up living in one

I hate it. Well, not as much now as it was "only" 27 today but the 2 days here where it got up to 37 and 39 (and DS's school closed) were so miserable I cried. I think I slept 3 hours a night for almost a week.

Same. There are no "window units" here in the same sense, so you need something that comes in a big box with a funnel/pipe thing that goes out the window. It's bad enough storing 2 large fans for 9 months of the year so I've just never taken the plunge.

Also - they are out of stock. Everywhere. And will be for months.

I managed to get a sunburned fa e, walking 45 minutes mostly in the shade today.

Ive had the stove lit all day its been that cold here in NI.

Warmed up this evening - and was pretty nice when the sun came out from behind the clouds. Sat in the garden with the fleece going on and off

I'm in Jämtland, mid/North Sweden. It's been such a useless summer. Rained practically every day. On Friday night there was a storm that knocked the power out for 4 hours. Today is 6c and we had to put the heating on.

I am suffering from heat envy.

All people do in this country is moan. If people don't like it, why don't they just up sticks and go and live in Scotland?

If you could possibly send some nice weather north of the border I’d appreciate it, it’s been wet and windy the last week or so, I could really do with some lovely hot sunshine.

In the past it’s not been necessary to have air con in the UK. Houses are not built to retrofit A/C. I’m leaving the UK this week as I can’t do another heatwave here without HVAC.

I cannot sum up how jealous I am. Of course the heat is difficult to work in but in Scotland, I am struggling to get any washing dry as its just constant rain. Kids on school holidays and haven't been out to play. No such thing as bad weather blah blah but who really wants to trudge about a soaking wet park.
Its fucking miserable here. House swap anyone?

@MapleLeaf190 in terms of flats, no one has access to those window ones that you seem to get everywhere in NYC. I've never been to Canada, but I imagine it's the same thing because that part of the world has a sensible attitude to hot temperatures!

I've needed one of those since the place I lived in in 2009

But the way buildings are built here it doesn't seem to be possible

In terms of houses, I don't know - I'm fairly sure there are alternative options and you don't have to have a massive condenser unit on the outside of your house but I guess most people just don't think it's important

Houses aren't generally built with these awful thermal bricks that are so common in flats, I think. Or are they? I don't know.

The attitude here with building flat has always been to keep as much heat in as possible. It is pretty nuts. I have a very low heating bill, which is nice. But my current place was built three years ago and it really should have automatically been built with air conditioning.

I think it gets complicated retrofitting it because then you've literally got to rip out layers of insulation

Or maybe it's not complicated and it's just nobody has the will to sort it out

The flats that are sold to really wealthy people, they have had air-conditioning as standard since the 90s maybe? I'm not sure if it counts as air-conditioning if they've got those systems where you can either have cool or hot air blowing through the flat.

Living in an oven, as I have done for years, really makes you look at a lot of stuff about building regulations and none of it makes sense. Same goes for soundproofing, but I won't derail because I can talk about that forever as well 😂

I've had some really shit excuses about how it's difficult to balance heat with the cold that we have - the amount of time I've spent working in the US, I've never seen anyone have that problem. Britain and Europe just don't seem to have any common sense about this stuff.

I saw a video somewhere explaining that European cities would have problem with mass air con as the heat produced by the cooling systems (which needs to escape outside) will create an additional heat dome.

I just put the electric blanket on, had to towel-dry the cat when he came in - yes, in Scotland. I’d love a bit of warmth.

It’s been miserable in Scotland for weeks. I’d gladly swap.

I found it unbearable when it was up around 40 degrees the other week, but I don’t mind up to about 30 degrees. The crap thing for me is all related to dogs - I’m a dog walker so most of my walks are being cancelled, therefore no money coming in. And constantly worrying about my own dogs and trying to keep them cool, and entertained when it’s too hot to walk (one is a puppy). And I compete in a dog sport, training is mostly being cancelled, and competitions are still happening but there’s no way I’d run my dogs in that kind of heat, and so I just have to throw away the entry money.