AIBU to find the cooler weather surprisingly cold after the heatwave?

[TheItalianGame]

Climate change and recurring heatwaves terrify me so I hate to admit this but the recent drop to the high twenties feels unbelievably cold. The overnight temperatures are positively wintry. Tell me I am not the only one!

I’m boiling. It’s still 24 degrees at 9.30pm here, but it feels about 35 in our house.

its bloody boiling here still. Not that I’m complaining but it’s not cooled down where I live yet! Thermometer right next to my open back door is reading 29.2 degrees currently.

I think it’s been around 25 ish today in Manchester. This is my perfect summer temp! It’s certainly not cold🙄.

Current temp is 21 and our house is 24. We only heat to 19 in winter so it’s very warm! No blankets and windows open. ( can’t smell burning currently from the moor fire)

Yesterday I had to put my heating on 🙈. It wasn’t just me the whole household was cold

YABU. It’s not cold. It’s still warm. It’s just not hotter than the sun warm

Where are you? What temperature was it? I've just been outside in my shorts pyjamas hanging up the washing to dry first thing tomorrow and it was still plenty comfortable at that temperature in a tshirt. It's sweaty hot inside

Wait for another couple of weeks it's going down to 14°

Where? I’m heading to London next week and it looks like it’s going to be mid-20s all week.

Lol, yes. That’s how acclimatization works. Welcome to planet Earth.

Where I live is currently on a par - more or less - with London (this is a tropical country!) And I found it so difficult to deal with London last year in the heatwave, quite shocked tbh, because that is how hot it is every day here - but found ways to navigate (esp being near the river !) However during rainy season, the temp can drop to 18c 😳 It feels an impressive drop from 24c. And I get 'really' excited about finding the cosy cover for bed. Or a real log fire up in a mountain finca. Delicious. You know it won't last, just deal....

I was going to say similar… (East Lancs here btw). I have a condition where my body doesn’t cope with sudden hot/cold changes very well. I’m finding it daft cold at night and have an extra blanket on me right now. If my healthy adult daughter said the same (she lives 10 mins down the road), I’d be suggesting she keeps an eye on things and maybe see her GP if it was no better in a day or so!
It does feel desert-like at the moment. Really hot during the day and really cold at night.

It's still around 27-28° during the day down south. It was midnight before I was happy to turn the fan off.

You are joking! It's still bloomin hot and the evenings are fresh.

I know what you mean, the mornings and nights are very chilly but it does still get hot around 11am ish here and stays that way till evening. Yesterday morning I had to put a jumper on but was roasting by midday.

It drops to 12 overnight here at the moment, and with all the windows and doors open in the morning to get a stiff breeze through, it feels distinctly cool.in our house, where the room temp is 21+ a breeze. Overcast here most of the morning, and windy.

Even 24 with shade and a strong wind feels cool, and it doesn't get warmer than that inside.

I'm chilly, but enjoying it until I have to head out to pick my son up in the full afternoon heat.

15 degrees here currently, definitely feeling cool sat outside.

It's nice, so much better than feeling sweaty and ill every day. It's still warm, wearing t-shirts etc, nice to have it warm but not boiling. This is what summers meant to be like .

I’m in Ireland and it’s still absolutely fucking boiling here and I can’t wait for it to end. They keep saying it will end and then it gets extended. I absolutely hate the heat and can’t wait for the cold. Where are you?

Im genuinely looking at Norway to live as this is going to only get worse. It’s unbearable!!!

Forks type weather suits me. I’m so happy when it’s not hot.

It's not cold at all, you have simply acclimatised to very warm weather so the drop in temperature feels cold, like if you go on a hot holiday and feel chilly when you land back in the UK even if temperatures are in the mild mid twenties. Don't immediately reach for heating and jumpers (unless you have a health.condition) but simply take time to adjust to it and perhaps enjoy the feeling of being a bit too cool.

we def acclimatise. I went to Spain at the end of Jan this year and sat outside a bar in the sunshine ... it was about 15/16 and I thought it was boiling compared to our frosty winter.

I'm far North East and it's been much cooler the past couple of days, I was actually cold on the school run yesterday morning, it was about 14 degrees which is a massive drop from the high 20s we have been having.

Indeed. I remember going to Valencia in early March and it was sunny with temperatures in the high teens. The locals thought we were mad for walking around in jeans and t shirts when they were still wrapped up in winter coats and scarves.

Been 28-29 during the day here and a lot cooler at night. It's lovely after the weeks we've had preceding it. Not that long ago I would have thought of 28-29 as a very hot summer day in the UK but now it feels normal.

I am house sitting in a ground floor north facing flat, two hours north east of London, I will try to enjoy it! It doesn’t occur to me to use central heating because I don’t have it at home.