Not looking forward to extreme heat

37 (98.6) forecast here today - that is the shade temperature.

The humidity means that it feels 2C higher and it's harder to cool down in humid conditions. 

All the best to others suffering in the heat.

Be safe and very well hydrated.

Roll on the weekend. 

Cinnabar_wing said:

my kids were still made to play rounders outside in the middle of the day.  I think the PE teacher is a bit mad.

I think the teacher is too!

Cinnabar_wing said:

Contemplating sandwiches for dinner so I don't have to put the oven on.

I'm eating only cold snack food at the moment.

The idea of being near an oven makes my brain melt.

Cinnabar_wing said:

33 in our office as the heat from the machines builds up through the day

Sorry to hear this.

I hope you (and everyone here) get through this safely.

Take care.

Sorry to hear, it's harder when it's hot, you need the windows open but not the noise coming in.

I survived my working day in my upstairs room. I started a little earlier so could finish early. I shut the window when warming up. I also found putting cold water on my skin helped. One day done and a few days off.

Utterly horrible, the neighbours are being really noisy and theres no escape

The BBC reports that “According to French newspapers, there has been a run on a chalky product called Blanc de Meudon, or Meudon Whiting, in DIY shops”.

From cool-down spots to chalk on windows - how Europe is coping with the heat https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz0j87vpz79o

Ì don’t remember ever having been sent home from work. 

I heard that some trains may be off because the severe heat may cause tracks to buckle and cables to sag and bend.

I hope people are surviving, I watched the heatwave programme Marianne recommended and now having one it really highlights how bad it can be for people's health. It's comforting to see people still posting so everyone knows they are okay!

Even we (In Scottish Borders) are finding it too hot, so dread to think of how others are finding it. Working from home is proving awful now, as it's 29 outside and 33 in our office as the heat from the machines builds up through the day (a converted garage). 

I hope the schools are being sensible, my kids were still made to play rounders outside in the middle of the day.  I think the PE teacher is a bit mad.

Contemplating sandwiches for dinner so I don't have to put the oven on. 

Sending cool thoughts, like basins of cold water for feet and washing hair and leaving it to dry. Washing some towels and letting them dry inside to cool houses down? Stay safe!

ArchaeC said:

I hope you can get comfortable tonight and that you stay well hydrated too.

Thank you

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.

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.

The thing I don't like about the extreme heat is the pollen that comes along with it.  I like Winter better.

JD-on-sea said:

Just seems to be a new thing as I don’t remember this approach in the past.

If working from home involves PCs or other technology, that could be why, as in the past they didn't exist.

For example, when I was a legal assistant, I couldn't have worked from home - that would have involved taking files, using the phone and a typewriter.  It was completely boiling sometimes in that Victorian, south facing, large windowed office.

I stopped working around a decade ago and I don't think I was ever sent home but then we are now having regular record breaking temperatures.

Some of the places I worked had air con so then being sent home would have been the worst idea.

We have a red health alert where I live now - I would much rather be at home if I could although it's boiling here too, I do have air con units.

In my shaded bedroom it's 25.3 C today, but I've been outside and there it is warmer.

Do any of the older (40s+) people on the group recall instructions for people of any age to stay at home years ago when it was30 degrees? I completely understand that vulnerable people need to but my work has just sent us home and told us to work from home if we can for the rest of the week (fine, I can save on the train fare) and the train companies are saying the same. Just seems to be a new thing as I don’t remember this approach in the past. As I say, not knocking it, but the change is playing into my autistic dislike of change.

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.

I was going to say, “Thatchers Britain!”

excellent! The 'Blame Machine' at work!

I blame humans.

I blame Global warming and Carbon footprint