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Working in the spare room, which is the most modern part of the house (was done 2006-ish by previous owners) and therefore the most insulated.
As such, I am properly sweltering in here - a toasty 27deg with the windows open for airflow and blinds all down. Fan going ten to the dozen but just pushing hot air around!
This Grauniad article suggests stripping off - not sure that really works when impromptu video conferences are the name of the game!
Phew!
My office is downstairs in the north west corner, and the window sheltered by a tree. I've just made myself a cup of tea, what heatwave?
Yup been for a walk it’s red hit. I feel sorry for our staff who now have to wear masks while driving about even more so as it’s rare the aircon works.
Had an early ride out this morning and it was 21 by 8.30am, now sat in the north west wing of the castle* working and its betty swollocks weather for sure.
* aka the spare room
While working from home, my office is in the attic. Currently 31c. Fan not that effective.
I am in shorts and shirtless. Have turned off the camera on my laptop
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Have a frozen 2l bottle of water in front of the fan. Seem to work a little
West of Scotland, a pleasant 21 in the house and 22 in the garden. On work Teams Calls with the patio door open.
You, rich and perchy need to look at a map, you're not in the West! 😂
Looking forward to open water swimming for an hour later on. In fact it might just be bobbing in the water.
Fan on, seems ok. 38C on the bike yesterday wasn't particularly pleasant, though.
South East here. Running a centrifuge plant on a sewage works. Hopper just blocked with dried human waste, had to dig it out with a shovel, no shade. Do I win £5?
Running a centrifuge plant on a sewage works. Hopper just blocked with dried human waste, had to dig it out with a shovel, no shade. Do I win £5?
If you do it'll be via bank transfer, no way I'm getting close enough to give you cash in hand.
Nobeerinthefridge
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You, rich and perchy need to look at a map, you’re not in the West! 😂Posted 10 minutes ago
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my house is west of the University of the West of Scotland 🙂
just not as far west as you !
Yep, quite warm is sunny ol' Cheshire too. Was 19 degrees when I went for my run at 07:15 this morning.
Now stuck in the box room surrounded by laptops pumping heat out. Even with the window open and breeze blowing through it's not great, not helped by the breeze being warm too. Weather station in the garden claims it's 32.5C a the moment.
Yesterday evening's brief ride was rather warm too.
Quite nice out there, turbo fan pressed into alternate duties in the office. Down to my pants.
Yer in the midlands Clow!
Attic studio is bonkers temps. Iced ginger beer with limes can only go so far. Fridge of beer is calling me.
Work is calling louder sadly.
Sigh. Just finished dealing with a client complaint. 28deg in here now.
Quite nice out there, turbo fan pressed into
alternate duties in the office. Down tomy pants.
Sounds dangerous!
Local Wunderground station reporting 31C, 27C in our lounge, thankfully a bit of a breeze coming through and the sun has moved round so we can open the curtains... So glad I left the windows open in here last night!
And very glad I'm on annual leave, the poor "late" shift are working from 0830 to 1630 in this today, delivering mail since ~1030-1100 until ~1600+.
I'm trying to rustle up some enthusiasm to head out for a pootle on the road bike, with no plans of any new PBs, but I hate this sort of heat or anything much above ~20C. Out on the road, you cannot pop to the bathroom and soak your head in lovely cool tap water...
im hiding behind my house in the rear garage, abandoned the camper van.
Opened both the front doors and contemplating putting the turbo fans on as the sun creeps over the ridge of the house.
Just got back from a lovely relaxing swim in the North Tyne.
Went out on the bike this morning, 24 degrees with mad humidity and I couldn't drink fast enough to replace the sweat!
Just about to start work delivering groceries. I may spend a few minutes longer than normal in the freezer bit every delivery!
I can recommend getting a couple of freezer packs, wrapping them in kitchen roll and putting them under your bare feet.
It's improved the situation in my home office from horrible to bearable....
It's lovely here - 30C, with a slight breeze. Sat working in just my shorts.
My bar of Dairy Milk is a bit stretchy though.
The 'old' parts of our house have very thick walls. So it's pretty cool in here. Combination of walls/position relative to sun/small-ish windows. The 'newer'' part we decided to build with a 'wall of glass' is well over 80 degrees in old money. The Shed is heading towards the 90s!
I'm going out riding later. Via the co-op to stash lots of post-ride isotonic drinks in the fridge. Beer is isotonic isn't it? 🙂
Out on the road, you cannot pop to the bathroom and soak your head in lovely cool tap water…
I've got a photo of a mate soaking her head under one of those village water fountains in Spain in 30+° heat. Spain is much more civilized than us in that respect.
I remember soaking my base layer in the mountain stream on baking hot climb in Italy and put it on again. Worked brilliantly for cooling. In that heat, it lasted about 10 minutes though!
29 today and tomorrow.
I could have picked a better time to sow a lawn.
Doesn't matter, the **** holy thunderstorm on Friday will probably wash it all away.
South facing garden is currently 34 degrees.
North East facing office is currently 18 degrees.
Furloughed wife is in the garden sunbathing. I am in the office working.
****ing coronavirus!!!!
Furloughed wife is in the garden sunbathing. I am in the office working.
My wife and son were lying in the paddling pool cooling off not so long ago. Grrr.
I just cannot. Usually I'm OK with heat but going so quick from cold to hot has caused my spirit to melt
Unusually hot here in Cardiff - normally three or four degrees cooler here than inland but not today.
I love it.
Weather station in the garden claims it’s 32.5C a the moment.
Interesting. Bike computer a couple of hours ago said 33. I thought surely not. It was rather pleasant whilst cycling but as soon as I got home and the airflow stopped I melted.
A mate has just popped out for a ride. I'm waiting till 7 to see if my motivation will return. Been a shit work day made worse by the heat.
went for a road ride, at 9 this morning still had to ease off on most of the climbs to avoid blowing up... felt pretty shit for most of the day sat in front of a fan. shortis 7ish off road ride tomorrow morning hopefully a tad more bearable.
I’ve found it pleasant in Bristol but the coding iron seems to be very unhappy , iMac fans continually running and no show of the secondary monitor 🙂
Now the hay fever eyes are what I could really do without, feels like explodedy eyeballs.
The shedoffice was blooming hot this morning - had to dash out for a desk fan. It's insulated, so stay's fairly cool, but early morning sun is on the half glass (perspex) front of the summer house. Both doors wide open and too hot.
Tomorrow is going to be fun.
Into the Zona Corona with full PPE which means scrubs, theatre cap, FFP3, splashproof overalls (yes, really), plastic apron and double gloves. In a unit that opened in 1989 and has celebratedly hopeless air con, and infection control have screwed all the windows shut.
This could be… sticky.
#smug alert!
I finally got round to installing the air con in the home office this week, so currently sitting in a comfortable 21c room
Picked my motorbike up from the MOT this afternoon.
2 piece leathers and full face helmet meant that my drip tray was full by the time I got home. (Was only a 2.5 mile ride home as well!)
God, it's a wee bit hot here in Devon.
Currently trying to fight fire with fire with a curry with extra chillis.
30C in the garden in the shade earlier, now 32C in the kids' bedroom. I just went out for a fast road bike spin. Dug out my muscle-cut summer road jersey that I hardly ever wear 🙂
We managed to get our fair skinned, blonde haired lad burnt while out riding for 3 hours today. I think the suncream sweated off him.
He's gone from "skimmed milk" to "spanked lobster" on both arms... 🙁
Twas a roaster up here.
Got up to 31 in the home office earlier. Had a bit of a laugh on a Team call when one of the managers turned up in a string vest, and he’s Southern.
However, I’ve just done a 1:20 Zwift workout in a 37 degree mancave. I was so hot my feel swelled and I had to loosed my shoes.
I’ve just done a 1:20 Zwift workout in a 37 degree mancave.
That sounds… unpleasant.
Fish tank is warmer than the thermostat setting.
I did a road ride about 4.30 - 6.30 tonight. Got into the relative cool of my house and then the sweating started, I was absolutely dripping.
Got through 3 bottles of water in 30 miles - filled up at a water fountain when I was empty, drank an entire bottle right there, refilled it and it was empty again 10 miles later when I got home.
Ride was hot! Not so bad under the trees but proper 'Spanish Summer' on the fire-roads
Beer was cold tho. And now it's lovely out in the garden.
Chuffin' hell Martin!
Spent yesterday and today sorting out foundations so that we can move the greenhouse. 150x100 x2.4m lintels take a bit of shifting in this heat as does a tonne of hardcore!
Chuffin’ hell Martin!
Indeed it is. 🙂
I prefer that to shifting concrete in this heat, though.
I,m sleeping in the back garden tonight. My house is to hot for me after today's ride.Just been sussed out by my local bat!Very exciting.
No. It's barely 20c here. Got my thick socks and winter boots on.
(Southern Hemisphere, innit)
My flat is nice and cool.
I almost fainted yesterday when i went out to hang the washing up I had a jumper on!
Mind you tshirt for me at about 16 degrees and total body shutdown at about 22 degreees so being inside suits me fine!
Fortunately for us there is a witch or some other kind of evil spirit buried under the lounge. The tarmac is melting outside and it's still cold in there.
Just woke up in a 30 degree bedroom. Having second thoughts about tonight’s Zwift time trial...
Not quite as hot up here, last nights ride up and round the locals and some bike park fun was brilliant, bit of rain has the tracks riding primo!.
Track session with a run club mate tonight, 12x500m. Gonna be fun.
Warm night, 20C at midnight from local Wunderground station, now already reading 24C! 😮
1.5l of fridge cooled water just about got me around a mostly sub z3 40-miler last night that was ~30C, any short sharp efforts left me gasping for the fluid!
Lounge felt lovely when I first surface ~30mins ago after leaving the windows open and the curtains drawn, but already feels like the temp is rapidly rising.
If I pop out before the possibe thunderstorms from 1600ish, I think it might be a day to use at least two of the 1l squash bottles I have chilled in the fridge and possibly my Camelbak Ice from the freezer on the Topeak bar/post cage mount!
What I want to know is why, when architects are asked to design schools they just build greenhouse? I mean old 50's and 60's schools I can understand they were just built with any old bits of asbestos and glass that were lying around but more modern ones are a mystery to me.
Water bottles one third full and frozen. Take fill and add juice. Ice cold drinks all day. Extra points if you use an insulated flask.
Keep doors open and windows open on opposite sides of the house. If you have Velux windows, open them and access doors. Air has to move to provide natural ventilation.
If all else fails#, ice pack placed on the wrist or run your wrist under the cold tap. DARPA looked at chilled gloves to improve soldier performance and endurance in hot climates.
Hottest place in the country yesterday (32.6C). I quite like it hot actually.
#including the air conditioner in the loft room. Where son2 lives and studies.
ANother top tip in addition to the above, open your loft hatch.
Loft Hatch? Really? Our loft is the hottest place because of course heat rises and it has black felt under the tiles, but does it realistically have anywhere to go fast enough, or will the hotter air "fall" through it?
Done a run, my first exercise in, ooo, four months this morning (and wasn't doing a lot before then) - at 7 o'clock it was jaaaaam hot.
For tomorrow's repeat I might get up at 4.
Ride out at 6am - a fresh 13°, was lovely.
Up to 18° by the time I got back, already feeling sticky.
open your loft hatch
I tried this once, never again. It's roasting up there and feels like the warm air defies physics to pour through the hole! Must be radiating out. If yours is well ventilated or has an openable window up there then fill your boots.
Think I'll have to break out the Ebike for todays ride.
Far to hot for a normal pedal.
First thing in the morning open up everything and close all the curtains. Then when the temps climb you can close the windows to try and keep the 30C air out. This only works if you have good blackout curtains, as thin ones will just let solar radiation in anyway.
First thing in the morning open up everything and close all the curtains. Then when the temps climb you can close the windows to try and keep the 30C air out. This only works if you have good blackout curtains, as thin ones will just let solar radiation in anyway.
Back in the spare room, windows open all night, blackout blinds down - still 26deg at 9.48am. I suspect I shall be a puddle by midday.
Won’t last, Thunderstorms later..
Did a ride in the lakes yesterday and it blew me apart did 4lts water with out going for a piss.
Ended up drinking from becks and a spring
Its so hot in my classroom two hobbits just opened the door and lobbed a ring in!
Did a ride in the lakes yesterday and it blew me apart did 4lts water with out going for a piss.Ended up drinking from becks and a spring
One of the massive pains of lockdown is the severely restricted cafe/supermarket/pub options for refuelling.
On the plus side, I now know where all the outside taps are in a 40 mile radius of mine!
On the plus side, I now know where all the outside taps are in a 40 mile radius of mine!
There used to be a convenient one on an old barn in the Chilterns, conveniently on the edge of what I could ride on a bottle and probably fed from a tank full of leigionella and dead pigeon but it never killed me.
It's now been re developed into a massive house and I've not found a replacement 🙁
Loft Hatch? Really? Our loft is the hottest place because of course heat rises and it has black felt under the tiles, but does it realistically have anywhere to go fast enough, or will the hotter air “fall” through it?
Our's is just a curtain across the ladder/stairs, but yep it's open and so is the velux in the loft.
I imagine it only encourages cooling if the loft is ventilated enough to let the warm air out.
Seems to work best for us late afternoon/evening as once the house has warmed up the upstairs is sweltering unless you give the air somewhere to go.
Was looking forward to a ride today, shall not be bothering
Just back from a 25 miler, mix of road and tracks with as few hills as practicable. Drank 3 litres of water without needing to per and just downed another litre as I got in. 22-23 degrees is my limit usually so this 30+ is hellish.
Nah, today was a nice cool 39degC so garden time with the kids and then going for an evening bike ride.
3 year old complained of cold exiting a paddling pool yesterday as it was 35degC!
Couldn’t face working at home today so I decided to face it on the bike instead. 75 miles to the south downs and back, mostly tarmac but some nice excursions off piste including the stretch of the South Downs from Lewis to jack and Jill. Absolutely roasting up there though, the breeze seemed to be missing the ridge line.
Extra water carriage didn’t quite get me home so had to dip into a corner shop for a coke and an ice cream about 7 miles out. Now attempting to get all that water back in me.
I've been putting up a new fence in full sun since 10am! I'm just about to head into the shaded part of the job. Herself is really enjoying this, I've sent her out in the car (to enjoy the aircon) to collect the spade for me to do a bit of digging.
Just did a 20mile pootle with stupid tarphat on and two bottles with iced water on the bike. Then called in the supermarket and bought 8 beers from the fridge and have practically inhaled 2 of them sitting under an oak tree in the middle of a field as I watch the red kites going about their businessdidnt get much above zone 3.5 on the ride.
cellar dweller here (well the office and turbo are down here)
its been a solid 18.5 all day :p
39 in my mancave. Took my bottles out of the freezer to defrost an hour ago. Zwift TTT here I come (gulp).