Anyone in BC?. Lake or stay home?

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Good morning Canucks. What are you all doing today to beat the heat?. I just hung out my laundry & I've had to take refuge in the kids pool I am melting. I'm dreading Monday 38° but will feel like 48° 🥵

Is there such a thing as a "cool dance" sort of like a rain dance? Maybe we could try it. Or ask the Mumsnet resident witches to create a benign, multi denominational incantation to the cooler balmy weather spirits.

Please give us mid 70s (20s) highs and lovely cool nights with stars...

I'm in Victoria, it's 38, I've been in and old of the pool, and taken two cold showers already

Also refilled the water dishes for the birds twice

Schools were closed in Vancouver today as they are not equipped for the heat. Graduating DGS was happy as he got his bonus points without doing his presentation today. The building he goes to school in is the same one my Dad attended in, would you believe, the 1940s.

Poor kids they have really had to adapt over the past year. His grad ceremony is tomorrow and we can wait outside to see him. I hope his overweight grandma can hack the heat. So proud.

@Seafog good job looking after the 🐦. Poor little buggers must be suffering
@LoveFall congrats on your graduate. It's been a tough year. Let's hope the kids get to enjoy a cracking summer (mid 20's would be perfect).
My Daughter is supposed to be going tubing tomorrow on the Cowichan, I'm thinking of pulling the plug. She will burn to a crisp.

I'm really not enjoying it... This heatwave can officially do one!

I can't believe that I'm looking forward to it being "only" 31C soon 😭

Sounds like a good idea, sleeping outside but it is not cooling much overnight.

That's one advantage we have being in the mountains. At least every night is a comfortable cool temperature, even with ~40C during the day.

I feel for you. East coast here, it’s hot but not as hot as you. It’s that you’re not equipped for this weather that makes it so awful.

I always feel for the homeless and vulnerable in these times. Extreme heat affects us mentally as well as physically. I hope people are able to access shelters with a/c in a Covid-safe way.

Vancouver and other cities have cooling places. But they said cooling is more important than Covid right now. It is that hot.

I just had a cool shower and got into bed. Despite our ancient (more than 10 years old, at least) jet engine sounding portable air conditioner running for the past 3 hours, my pillow is HOT. I am privileged to have ye olde jet engine anyway. I don't know how we would cope otherwise. No spring chickens here.

At least I saved water by emptying the bucket we have to keep for draining the air con into my big watering can and venturing out to water my balcony plants, who are none too happy. Free water from thin air!

I can only imagine what it is like for our homeless and impoverished.

As an Aussie who loves the heat, when it gets to 40 you need to be inside with decent aircon, in the pool, or at the beach. Can I make one suggestion though? A cool/lukewarm shower for bed seems to have a more cooling effect than a cold one. And you can get cooling pads for pets. Putting a big bowl of iced water in front of a fan can work quite well, and get a plant water spray to spray on yourself. Before I got aircon I used to spray my sheets and put them in the freezer before bed if it got very hot. Good luck!

@alwayscrashinginthesamecar1

My dear late Mom swore by a bowl of ice and a fan!

Thanks for the great suggestions.

On the west coast and boiling. We don’t have a fan but we do have a basement, so we all live down there till this is over. We did go to the beach today, it’s cooler there and the Pacific is always freezing here so that helped.

Sorry you guys are suffering

Have you tried using HOT WATER BOTTLES but with very cold water inside (from fridge) to help sleep?

Also using a fan with a bowl of ice cubes in front of it so it blows air over the ice and so is cool air

Hope the weather changes soon for you all

How is everyone? It is 26 on our deck right now. I went out and it actually feels just a bit coolish. Our apartment is still 28 as it absorbs the heat. Doors and window open though.

Is it better at your place? Can we be hopeful the end is nigh?

It's feeling a lot nicer where we are right now. We even had dinner in the back yard this evening.
Might bring the kids out of the basement tonight as well and just have the fans going.

kamloops here, dry dry heat. lost track of the numbers 46C at least, i'm at a higher elevation so usually 2C less than the airport site that registers the temp.
a/c a must for the interior heat dome or not.
i'd not recommend anyone leave home sorry several human caused fires . stay home stay safe.

I think I might take back my comments about things moderating. Just got home from grandson's graduation. It is a balmy 32 in our apartment and 35 outside.

Trying not to move and generate any heat.

As a previous poster said, this heat can do one. I am over it.

@fallfallfall I lived in Kamloops as a teen and know about the dry heat. Graduate of Kam Hi. Won't say when though...

Sorry to hear you are all struggling, do most homes have a/c, is this heatwave particularly unusual?
I know was a pp means about feeling panicky that they will never feel cool again, hope it cools soon.

@Crockof

Very, very few homes have air conditioning. They have always built homes and apartments here to retain and gather heat, not shed it. Our apartment has huge west facing windows and no air con.

The media keeps quoting only 30% have air con but that sounds very high to me. In recent years they have put air con in some high rises, but most don't have it.

This heat is essentially without precedent. It is horrendous, and is killing people and pets.

I pray it ends soon. It can't go on. It is frankly terrifying to feel this hot in your own home.c

My BB cousin resorted to buying a sort of free standing air conditioning unit, she is a heat lover, but needed relief.

*BC

Thanks, I did wonder, it makes such a difference if the country isn't used to temps like that especially as you say when houses are built to retain heat.

I've just been reading your local newspapers (and learnt about heat domes) they say covid restrictions have been relaxed to allow for cooling centres, were the restrictions strict beforehand/do you have a lot of cases?

Basically all new concrete condos are being built with A/C, some new non concrete condos will have A/C... barely any homes are built with it but some people will add it and most who custom build will put it in.

i'm a relatively new and affluent subdivision and i suspect all the homes in this section have a/c. but this is not the norm and the older apartments and older post war homes are unlikely to have central air.

some parts of bc would also have this as a muggy damp heat. in the interior temps of 40C are not that unusual and the sandy soil makes for a dry heat that cools off quickly after sunset (usually).

@Crockof the restrictions for indoors have remained fairly strict until this week when a lot of our restrictions are being lifted. Today's new cases in BC were 29 with only 876 active cases in a province of 5.1 million people.
I think the government of BC knew the threat to life due to heat was higher than covid. I'm glad they made that decision, I'm just hoping enough people listened and used the cooling centres if they needed them.