Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anyone else struggle with hot weather?
I find warm and hot weather really difficult to cope with and when it is like this I feel as though I can't do anything but try to survive until it cools down again. I am shut in the house with all the curtains drawn and windows closed. I open the windows for a while first thing in the morning to try and get the temperature inside to drop as much as possible, but as soon as the exterior temperature exceeds the interior temperature then I rush round and make sure all the windows are closed. In the winter I keep the thermostat at between 13 and 13.5 degrees C, and can't stand it warmer than that. Anything over 16 degrees C inside the house is a crisis for me. Right now it is 18.5 degrees inside and I can not function. I don't understand why other people seem to like it so much.
I also struggle with sunlight, it is too bright and intense and I cannot stand the feeling of it on my skin. I am also scared of getting skin cancer. I do everything I can to avoid going out in it. I prefer cold, dark, grey, cloudy, misty days. Foggy weather is my favorite, when sounds are muffled and everything is grey and cool.
Am I alone or does anyone else feel like this? It is very isolating and restricting.
I did manage one page, 500 words so far, It's difficult to sit still for longer than 20min summertime,
I don't like sitting in general anytime of year, soaking in a tub big yes, spread over the bed oh yes, sitting always gets a no and I don't know why
Temperature in my bedroom went down to 26C and I feel breeze coming in, very nice
That sounds nice. There was a lovely steady cool breeze blowing all last night here and it was like being born again.
I hope you get to do your writing today
Lovely and cool here with a nice breeze blowing outside. Perfect!
I came back home from now now, it's 5 degree less than yesterday in my bedroom, looks promising, my thoughts are raising already, I hope I'll be able to put reigns on my ADHD at last and do some writing, the story is racing in my head, I can barely keep up with my thoughts
This heat has been crippling! I can't believe how hot it's been these last few days. My little one certainly doesn't like it, been kicking about and making me feel a little green. I'm looking forward to some cooler weather.
I hope everyone else is doing alright.
I am so glad you told me, I didn't think of that. It is so helpful to have these cooling down tricks!
I hope that you have a much cooler cycle ride home, that sounds awful. The thing I found most hell on earth ish, when I went out earlier, was the smell of all the trees and plants being scorched, and it is windy here so everything is so dry. I can feel how easy it would be for things to catch fire. We need rain as well as cooler weather.
I about to leave to work, 15min cycling, it's 31C in my bedroom, but I have been outside hour ago, and it's hell on earth
It works surprisingly well, I almost felt chilly at one point.
I tried soaking a baseball cap in cold water and putting it on, that really helped. I wil ltry the wet top thing that sounds good
Soaking a baseball cap in cold water and then putting it on your head is amazing, really cools your head down
Wearing a wet shirt/top/t-shirt really does seem to help. It seems to be keeping my panic at bay.
I hope you managed to do a bit of sleeping as well as lunaticing.... Only 22 degrees in my bedroom so far (32 outside) but I still felt as though it is an emergency! I keep thinking that some people intentionally heat their homes to this temperature in the winter!
I took my top off, put it in a jug of cold water, squeezed the excess water out and put it back on... it is really helping a lot. It is cooling and doesn't feel as if I am wearing a wet top. I also wet a strip of fabric with cold water and put that round my head. Maybe it would help you too.
Really struggling with this heat now its becoming a real sensory thing
I've just came back home from work. 2am and it's 27 degree in my bedroom, begone sleeping, welcome lunaticing I don't think there is a word like that
Survived today.
Tomorrow is supposed to be hotter. I will cope.
But any more days of heat and I will panic.
How are we all today?
Yeah it sucks
I agree with you about a Spring or Summer day when it is warm rather than hot.
I also hate fumes on a hot day. In fact I have just experienced someone waiting for about 5 minutes to pick someone up with the engine running and windows open. I thought, that kind of pollution is what contributes to global warming and the exceptionally hot weather.