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Not looking forward to extreme heat

Homebird

It is just about reaching as hot as I can bear, towards the upper 20s. If we get extreme heat for a few days I get through it by thinking that it will be over soon. At the moment next week is predicted to be around 30 all week and often the prediction gets higher as it gets closer.

I like to be outside at least some of each day, but I am not sure there will be much that is bearable. 

I am hoping they have got it wrong and it reduces sooner than Monday week.

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  • My modern house is roasting upstairs and as the forecast predicts 27°C and sunny this week, the temperature will rise further inside. There will not be much chance of letting any of that hot air out.  I think I’m going to have to sleep downstairs on the sofa or on a mat on the floor.

    The old gel cooling mats my dogs used to use didn’t work for me when I tried them years ago, so thinking they might have improved, I invested in a new one for under the bedsheet. Last night, I went to sleep in a beautifully cool bed.

    I woke up at around 5:00am this morning roasted. The cooling mat was more like a heat mat. I got up and pulled the duvet back to let the bed air. When I returned to the bedroom over 60 minutes later, the mat was still warm and underneath the mat, the mattress was warm. The mat allowed my body heat to spread to the areas in which I wasn’t making contact, it absorbed my body heat and passed it through to the mattress trapping it, and making me feel like I was lying on an electric blanket. 

    All the portable air con units on my short list have sold out. I’ve left it too late.

  • in reply to ArchaeC
    ArchaeC said:
    All the portable air con units on my short list have sold out. I’ve left it too late.

    So sorry this has happened.

    I slept a little last night but in the end I got up around 5 as the heat upstairs was intolerable, even though I had a fan on me all night (with ear plugs).

    I then spent some time sitting in the garden.

    I'm considering sleeping in the garden tonight.

    I hope you will be OK, and are keeping very well hydrated.

  • in reply to B

    Thank you B. I’m keeping well hydrated and will be fine, just sleep deprived. At least I can get some reprieve in my north facing downstairs sitting room.

    I hope nobody has a modern house in the south of England like mine in Northern Ireland. If the temperatures hit the high thirties, upstairs wouldn’t be fit for habitation. 

    I feel bad complaining when you are having a worse time with higher temperatures than in my area. I’m sure the garden was pesceful at 5AM butI’m sorry you got so little sleep. I hope you can get comfortable tonight and that you stay well hydrated too.Bouquet

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  • in reply to B

    Thank you B. I’m keeping well hydrated and will be fine, just sleep deprived. At least I can get some reprieve in my north facing downstairs sitting room.

    I hope nobody has a modern house in the south of England like mine in Northern Ireland. If the temperatures hit the high thirties, upstairs wouldn’t be fit for habitation. 

    I feel bad complaining when you are having a worse time with higher temperatures than in my area. I’m sure the garden was pesceful at 5AM butI’m sorry you got so little sleep. I hope you can get comfortable tonight and that you stay well hydrated too.Bouquet

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