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I've managed some coding this morning but the home office is now at the point where even the desk feels warm to the touch. It's these heatwaves that make me miss living by the coast, it's no fun in the Midlands in this weather.
I've been out cycling in 35C a lot but that was in Australia where it was a dry heat and absolutely fine so long as you drank enough (water during, beer after). Actually enjoyed it - you feel really loose and there's no sweat because it evaporates instantly. But this is much more unpleasant with the humidity.
It's hot, just been to the co-op next to work to grab some soup. Slow ride home I think !
BBC have the helicopter out filming the heat at Charlwood
Don't Look Up really was a documentary then?
the buddleia is looking very sorry for it's self!
GMB Union are proposing that people shouldn’t be allowed to work above 25 degrees. Give me strength
I don't think the GMB union is proposing that people shouldn’t be allowed to work above 25 degrees. As I understand it they are proposing that when temperatures hit 25 degrees employees should be given the right to wear casual clothing, have access to hydration facilities, and for those working outdoors be provided with protection to minimise the risk of skin cancer.
All of which seem perfectly reasonable demands from an organisation which exists specifically to support the interests and wellbeing of its members.
GMB Union are proposing that people shouldn’t be allowed to work above 25 degrees. Give me strength
What is wrong with protecting ones staff from adverse weather? Admittedly 25C inside is a tad uncomfortable but outside in full sun that implies weather that can kill the susceptible.
Heat stroke is a condition that can kill and is like a silicon chip getting too hot and melting down. Once it's in motion there's a good chance the patient will die.
Remember if the HSE takes one to court one needs to prove ones innocence.
Weirdly now the wind has just picked up massively from nothing to a gale !
I wonder if this is the start in the temp dropping off ?
BBC have the helicopter out filming the heat at Charlwood
<sighs>
I went to the Coop for some fresh rolls for lunch - not been baking today!
With hindsight it was to be expected.....
One of my colleagues goes for a run every day, hasn’t stopped at all in this heatwave!
He was complaining of a headache this morning.
Those with substantial run streaks (I follow a few who are in to years) will have dragged themselves out this morning no doubt.
We're just having a few rumbles of thunder.
Pegged out some washing earlier. A blouse was virtually dry half an hour later.
FiL is in Lanzerote, its 26o there.
Pond is drying up, most plants wilting and all 3 water butts empty.
Watching the La Tour is making me feel even hotter.
Will it be 17o and rain when the children break up next week - I hope not?
Been in all day. I need to get out of the house, will try and get some more ice lollies at Asda. Will take the Garmin to check temps 🙂
Just been out for a lunchtime walk.
Going over this bridge:
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and the tarmac on the surface was soft, gone very lumpy in places & was bouncy underfoot.
I thought all this talk of roads melting was a bit OTT, but apparently not.
One of my colleagues goes for a run every day, hasn’t stopped at all in this heatwave!
He was complaining of a headache this morning.
Waves.
Lots of 5am runs on my Strava feed, I'll get out later for 40 mins or so, nowt stupid.
The Met Office says London Heathrow reported a temperature of 40.2°C at 12:50 today.
Is that in the baggage reclaim queue?
hit 101f (38.5c) here :/
It's officially bloody hot at school today!
Watching the La Tour is making me feel even hotter.
Why are you watching a tower, and why does it make you feel hot?
We’re just having a few rumbles of thunder.
Yep!
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=56.15;-3.34;6&l=rain-3h
Think we've gone over the peak in Blackpool, 35 apparently and now the cloud is rolling in and the wind has picked up
Just left the shelter of my fan-and-frozen-bottle room to hang the washing out and put water out for the garden beasties - holy shitballs, that's warm.
rained earlier in devon, now evaporating and bringing the humidity right up...
Actually, cloud broken up again, bit it's blummin windy now. Load of tree bits gone in me vimto! 😜
43°C in the shade at Heathrow, with a seriously hot wind. Even hotter inside the cargo sheds, which is where I was. Instant, dripping sweat just moving around.
39.5 here in Ely. It's the hot dry wind that's so strange.
if there is one positive from the weather/climate change it's the fact that people might finally see that conservatories were never a good idea.
that and south facing huge bifold doors without low-E glazing or sunshades.
This country has never built decent housing, it’s about time it started.
Well my asthma certainly does not like the heat. Not sure if its the heat itself, the poorer air quality/very high pollen count etc. but either way I'm suffering. Was really unwell with it yesterday - I've gone into the office to benefit from air-con today. I like warm and sunny, but have never been able to cope with heat, especially when coupled with humidity.
think i've burn't the bottom of my feet on the patio 🙁
Some biig clouds over the West country, checked the radar and looks like a storm front is going to hit us.
The problem with the UK is we've never built our infrastructure of buildings for this level of heat, other countries have created their housing to combat high temperatures, whereas we've built ours to combat low temperatures of winter, temperatures we don't really see much off any more.
It's also how you can see air conditioning being a much bigger thing, i still can't fathom out how new builds (well the expensive ones) aren't mainly built with AC being an as standard feature, it's always an afterthought even with this type of heatwave being pretty much every summer at some point, maybe not a 40 degree peak, but 35+ is pretty standard to see every year.
I think the last time I was this hot was (cycling related) when we went over to Ciclo Montana in July as it was the only date we could all do where Ciclo had availability.
We went for an over-nighter to Granada & coming into the city along a river path there was a hot breeze blowing - like cycling towards a hand-drier.
We stopped for some Fanta Limon & the digital temp gauge on the other side of the road was reading 42deg. C.
Feels a lot like that today.
whereas we’ve built ours to combat low temperatures of winter,
Arguably, a lot of the UK hutches do not combat low temperatures very well, either.
38°C and not a cloud in the sky. I have several fans and ice cold drinks but start sweating if I move my mouse too quickly.
The 3 guys barrowing tonnes of sand and laying my brick driveway seem completely unfazed. Maybe tea is the secret.
39.8C in the shade here (Bromley) at 13.30 today.
its pretty windy as well.
It's just dropped by around 5C after a wee thunderstorm.
edged up to 39 here, may make 40!
Electricity keeps going off here in Stourbridge, also looks like my mobile (O2) service dropping
Arguably, a lot of the UK hutches do not combat low temperatures very well, either.
Yep - solid wall Victorian house with a suspended floor and four open chimneys is not designed for cold winters!
whereas we’ve built ours to combat low temperatures of winter,
In theory, apart from painting the exterior white, the two are one and the same, you're just trying to keep one side of the wall warmer than the other.
My house is noticeably cooler at the moment than I remember it being in previous years after getting the cavity walls insulated. The larder/pantry* shares an exterior wall with the conservatory and used to be unusable at this time for anything other than dry foods as chocolate, butter, etc would all melt
And the trouble with AC, is it needs servicing, cleaning etc. You'd probably kill more people from legionella than you saved from heat stroke.
*it's not a room you walk into, just a brick built cupboard in the kitchen.
43 degrees in my conservatory in Burton. The dark composite decking we put down a few years back is looking like a mistake 😀
Front of the house a good deal cooler (north facing) so keeping the doors closed and dog+me staying in the front. She doesn't do heat well.
A little AC unit in my study might be on the cards.
Arguably, a lot of the UK hutches do not combat low temperatures very well, either.
I take issue with that, I own lots of jumpers.
Suffering from a bit of heat exhaustion now. I don't remember heat quite like this, especially the hot breeze. Tomorrow can't come quick enough. Or acting on this cluster**** of a climate disaster.
You’d probably kill more people from legionella than you saved from heat stroke.
Modern air con doesn't use water, they use whatever the modern version of CFCs is. Legionella normally occurs in hot water systems eg showers.
A little AC unit in my study might be on the cards.
Bought one last week in Homebase, currently the ground floor is quite pleasant with it humming away....
Got a link footflaps? And is it quiet? Got an industrial fan here which makes too much noise for sleeping.
Mind you, it'll likely be snowing tomorrow....
Mates in Italy have seen the UK reaction to the ‘heat’. They find it hilarious
Lovely down South today, lunch in the garden sunshine was the best yet and off to see my 99yo great grandparents tonight, they seem to be enjoying the lovely weather. Although my Nan probably thinks it’s crazy hot for December 😂
Peaked at 39.3 Deg C here in Cambridgeshire, in the shade.
37c in Newcastle and hotter than N.Borneo.
I ain't fishing in this weather LOL!
29.5c in the flat ... water cooled pooter CPU is hitting 40c at the moment.
Lots of 5am runs on my Strava feed, I’ll get out later for 40 mins or so, nowt stupid.
Birkenhead 5 mile race this evening.....
40C here and 36C in the loft office. The mini A/C has been fired up. All the Velux blinds are of course closed. Fashioned a vent out of some polystyrene to keep the hot air out.
It is, however, nice to descend the two flights of stairs - you can feel the cooler temps as you go down.
Bought one last week in Homebase, currently the ground floor is quite pleasant with it humming away….
Quietly humming away, nicely contributing to the main problem that makes the planet hot in the first place
Not trying to blame you for climate change of course! But I do like how us humans can’t do anything about short term problems without creating more long term problems
However the idiots I’ve seen lately idling their cars to keep their AC running deserve a key down the side of their vehicles
Ah a local substation has gone bang and on fire
Definite evidence that today is hot.
I've had to design an ad for a client suggesting people book now for their Christmas Party.
Hit 39C near Malton, North Yorkshire.
Met office forecast was 38C.
So pleased we bought a portable air con for the office a month back. It's struggling, but bearable 29C. These portable ones are a bit poor, pulls in a huge amount of air for it's exhaust, and that air is from a corridor that is about 34C. Directly outside even hotter in a glass walled, glass roof external walkway.
8000 litre above ground pool in the garden is now 34 degrees.
It's lovely but that's incredible given the SHC of water. Never seen anything like that in the UK.
Crazy hot in the workshop today.
Quietly humming away, nicely contributing to the main problem that makes the planet hot in the first place
Using solar off the neighbour's roof!
Adding solar to our roof is on the To Do list....
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Hit 39.6 here in shade in North Norfolk and it says that it is going to peak at 17:00 - 18:00 hours here... been wetting down the greenhouse, hate to think what the temperature is in there, instantly break into sweat as i walk in.... on the plus side, chilli plants are bloody loving it!
Got a link footflaps? And is it quiet?
This one: https://www.homebase.co.uk/portable-air-conditioner-8000-btu/12826720.html
It was on offer at £250 when I bought it.
It is noisy - but on low fan with ear plugs in it was far easier to sleep than sweating in 35C. In the office (dining room) it's actually fine on full power - on a Teams call now and they can't hear it.
Our ground floor is all open plan and it has enough oomph to cool the entire floor - obs it's cooler nearer it, but I'm 10' away and nice and cool.
Wunderground is map is showing 41*c in a few places - are they same sensors as MetOffice? @StirlingCrispin may know...
Modern air con doesn’t use water,
does it not still condense on the doohickey?
London Fire Brigade declares a major incident following surge in fires
I don’t know that aircon will ever be built in to new houses, as post 2025, the government is targeting a 75% reduction in CO2 emission through the lifetime of the building. So, use of thicker wall and floor insulation, air source heat pumps, triple glazing and the like.
Ultimately this would make the house cooler in the summer I guess.
PV would help with CO2 reduction , and I’m not an expert, but doesn’t one side of the roof have to be facing predominantly south to get the most from them?
Stuck my Wahoo bike computer on table outside and it has hit 41 degrees here.. but yesterday we had all windows open day and night, today we left windows open all night, but closed them all we got up and kept all curtains closed, it definitely feels cooler inside than it did yesterday despite being 5-6 degrees hotter
Why in the name of god would anyone do that?
i’m sure you are joking, if not you are going a bit over the top.
i used to ride my bike in Houston summers. it was ok while moving, but waiting at traffic lights on a bright white concrete road was horrendous. i didn’t put the rides on starva because the really tough people don’t use strava.
London Fire Brigade declares a major incident following surge in fires
They need one proper geezers sort it oooowt! Do we know any?
Even if you have PV, using aircon is still using a lot of power that could be used for something else.
I’ve had to design an ad for a client suggesting people book now for their Christmas Party.
To be fair most Christmas Parties will have to be booked up by about next week.
Using solar off the neighbour’s roof!
Even if you have PV, using aircon is still using a lot of power that could be used for something else.
If his neighbour is giving it away they probably lack the ability to store or sell it
I’ve had to design an ad for a client suggesting people book now for their Christmas Party.
I’ve had one booked since March.
Those fires look absolutely terrible. 🙁
seems to have maxed out at 39 here
Strong breeze in my bit of Leeds (Yeadon) and it was hotter yesterday than it is today,temperature dropped from a high of 34 to 32 in the last hour
Even if you have PV, using aircon is still using a lot of power that could be used for something else.
Yes, but I plan to install solar on the house and workshop roof pretty much just to run Aircon all summer! So will export when it's just warm and use a good chunk of it when it's hot. If it runs all day at a low level it can switch off at night as the house won't have heated up much.
Obvs adding all that HW is a whole load of CO2 but it will still export a load of kWh to the grid over it's lifetime.
Neighbours had some sort of fire in their back garden the past two nights. They aren't very popular on the local FB chat for some reason LOL.
Morning cycle commute bit toasty. Decided to ride to the beach at lunch time, and do a little handstand practice in the park. Foolishly wasn't even the nearest beach, about a 50 minute ride. Felt like it might have been a mistake. Commute home at 4pm felt even hotter, so took direct route. Won't be spending much time outside now for the rest of they day!