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A common thing in spain is like a latte, but served with a small glass of ice cubes on the side, so you can just add them as you want. I can’t remember what the word for it is though
Not that common, I’ve been here for years and I’ve never seen it. An espresso over ice is pretty common, though, and what I usually order. No milk.
Pool time.
Funny I only learnt of this yesterday - you just add 'con hielo' (with ice) to your usual coffee of choice..
so something like 'Americano,poco leche,con hielo'
I was expecting it to be something more involved 🙂
Daughters year (Year 10) not in school tomorrow, as they haven’t enough cooler classrooms to juggle them around, they did try today but some hit 40°. They break up on Friday anyway.
If it hit 40c then there is no way you can stay in the room to learn etc.
As a kid until I finished my secondary school we did not have aircon, just few ceiling fans at full spin, in the teaching room in the far east. During the hottest time of the day it is practically impossible to concentrate. Most just felt asleep or try to sleep and drink plenty of water.
Also the building in the UK is not very ventilated which makes heat worst if there is no aircon.
She’s unilaterally decided not to go to gymnastics tonight. British Gymnastics guidance is sensibly pragmatic about what to do at different room temperatures, but basically “a lot less”
As long as the place is ventilated properly they should be fine but need to drink plenty of water. The place will smell like sweat ...
I am now wearing a muscle vest. I look like if Vin Diesel was cast in the movie Philidelphia to play a gay dude that’s about to die of AIDS.
I'm Spain based WFH so tbh that tends to be my daily summer work attire with cotton sweat shorts and nowt else.
I do tend to put a T shirt on for the big meetings, but a T_shirt always ends up a wet mess by the end.
I'll only switch the AC on when we hit the 40's as the dogs suffer
We have at least one more week of over 100 degrees here and only had 2 days of double digit temps this month. All the other days have been triple digits! Here being Texas. Early starts and riding in the woodland shade helps but the 6 mile ride home from the Sunday club ride is on a cycle path with no shade and can be chuffin brutal. But we do have time to get used to it, not like the shock spike of temperature you get in the UK and AC keeps you cool indoors.
Sitting here with all south-facing curtains drawn and windows shut since it started getting warm, internal doors shut and with a fan blowing gently across a bottle of frozen water, I'm very pleased with the difference a few simple changes have made. 🙂
We have at least one more week of over 100 degrees here and only had 2 days of double digit temps this month. All the other days have been triple digits! Here being Texas.
If I had the misfortune of living in Texas the heat would be the last thing I worried about
I imagine there are worse places to live than Texas. Oklahoma for example.
Some of my neighbours were in the garden for the past few hours baking their bodies, LOL! I sense that some will not be sleep well tonight.
It's glorious. Got one of those intex pools in the garden, water is 28degrees, perfect. 😎
Amazing difference in our garden with a lot of ivy and shrubs compared to the front of the house with the road and no trees.
Glass roofed car in direct sunlight right now:
This is the first heatwave where the media seem to be reporting temperatures in Celsius. Usually its cold temps in Celsius and hot temps in Fahrenheit because it sounds more sensational to write rubbish like
"Scorchio Britain bakes as the Mercury soars into the 90's!!!!"
Maybe temps in the 40's is sensational enough? Or maybe they are trolling Jacob Rees-Mogg.
The flat is getting hotter still, up to 26 degrees right now but outside is warmer still. No idea how I'm going to be able to get cool enough to have any decent sleep and I need it as I was knackered by the end of my shift.
Found some meltey tarmac on my ride, picked up some of it on my tyres. The tar where they’ve glued repairs to existing road were melting all over the place.
Just got to 39 degrees here in North Norfolk, they chose this as a great time to do that “chip and seal” cover on the roads yesterday, and it is just melting so everyone driving through village is collecting stones on tyres as they drive along…
Had to deliver to a place that had a new tarmac dressing put down two weeks ago at 2pm, the surface lifted up when I pulled the truck away. 14 tonnes pressing down and 32 degree heat (on the dash) welded it to the tyre, took a few minutes hacking at it with a spade to get most of it off!
Driving through notts today it hit 37.5°c.
Got home and next door having a pool party. Family all in the sun kids in and out the pool. Some very pink.
Overheard last night one couldn't sleep and was sick.
I suspect there will be more tonight.
Fwiw I'm useless with heat, hot bike rides I get headaches and feel really rough. I've been hiding all day.
Here being Texas.
Most people go from air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned work to air conditioned mall. In the UK there are even some people whose air conditioning on their car is broken...
As Molgrips says, many folk in hot nations just move from one kind of AC to another. One thing to consider with rising temperatures is do we risk going into a power consumption spiral where you need power to stay cool (in areas where traditionally you didn’t have AC) but generating that power risks compounding the global warming. We won’t be carbon neutral anytime soon. Even if all new builds are super insulated, there’s millions of existing crap insulated properties.
I wouldn’t normally rise but I have time this afternoon. I’m intrigued Somafunk, what’s your beef with Texas? Yes some places may be more or less agreeable to your sensibilities but I can’t think of anywhere where everything in life is just peachy.
In the UK there are even some people whose air conditioning on their car is broken…
Mine seems to be. Pretty useless when I ventured out this afternoon. Was listening to an electrician on R5 describing working in 50C+ in a loft in his PPE, wiring up bathroom downlighters. He was having to do it in 10min shifts.
Found some meltey tarmac
That's good, the potholes should fix themselves.
what’s your beef with Texas?
Greg Abbott.
pfft, clearly not a geezerHe was having to do it in 10min shifts.
what’s your beef with Texas?
Greg Abbott
I have a Bingo list and I just scored a point 😀
I have a Bingo list and I just scored a point
Yay! I'm happy for you. I didn't get the bingo card is this something just for Americans? You are an American, correct?
I got 32 in the shade in peebles and 42 on the south facing windowsill.
Thats 16degrees to many for me to function.
Filled a padling pool for the dog she drank most of it then curled up on the hottest bit of concrete she could find for 5 minutes before wandering back inside.
roll on winter
Just when I want to open all my windows and doors the local farmer has spread ****in foul slurry and chicken shit all over the 2 fields near to my house, arsehole! - its so strong it catches the throat and makes my eyes water.
I’m intrigued Somafunk, what’s your beef with Texas?
Really?, where could I start?
Yay! I’m happy for you. I didn’t get the bingo card is this something just for Americans? You are an American, correct?
No, not American, I just happen to have been here for a while. My bingo list (created in my head when I challenged Somafunk) is based on what I perceive likely dislikes of America/Texas might be. I did think Ted Cruz would be mentioned before Greg Abbott tho.
Thermometer hit 39C on my Lezyne Super GPS while on delivery just after 1130 today, the Jon Hen Cooling Towel went to work with me for first time ever and got me through the hottest temp I've ever knowingly experienced.
Been using the towel since work while trying to rehydrate, sleeping tonight is going to be a trade off between 24C heat and fan noise, thankfully I'm not in tomorrow for round two!
Cycled to the gym, did a 45 minute circuits session, cycled home. Now laying on trampoline in garden and might just stay here stewing in my own sweat until the morning.
J R Ewing
My bingo list (created in my head when I challenged Somafunk) is based on what I perceive likely dislikes of America/Texas might be. I did think Ted Cruz would be mentioned before Greg Abbott tho.
Utter disregard for the homeless
No social care
No health care/limited affordable health insurance/very limited health care funding
greg abbot/ted cruz and assorted nut jobs.
failing power grids
car is king and bigger the better to move their fat carcasses around
guns, and the sad ****s who carry them
hurricanes/tornadoes
voting rights for minorities
Joe rogan
mosquitos
no state wide laws to protect the rights of minorities
right wing religious fanatical freaks
you want more?
Yes some places may be more or less agreeable to your sensibilities but I can’t think of anywhere where everything in life is just peachy.
perhaps peachy for yourself but pity those not as fortunate
Texas is brilliant and scary as **** at the same time. I used to love my time visiting where we had a corporate office in Houston (like any corporate america city, except HOT) and a chemical plant on the Gulf of Mexico / Galveston Bay, which was proper oilmen and rednecks, as I say scary as **** but friendly as hell. I was lucky in that the production manager there became a firm friend as well as a colleague, and he was adored by his workers so if I was in with Jay, I was in. Getting taken to proper pit BBQ places that most people would drive straight by was always a highlight.
You have to realise it's 3x the size of the UK and has major differences commensurate with that size.
Weather station in the garden peaked at 31C at 4:30pm (in Stirling).
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ISTIRLIN11
Not MetOffice approved but pretty good (temps are read in the shade or behind a screen).
Temp has now dropped to 24.6C but my bedroom is at 29C. Ouch.
Used to live in Ohio where it regularly hit 37C with 90%+ humidity. My flat was not air-conditioned and I would just melt if riding the bike (flashbacks to a week-long camping tour called GOBA where I thought I'd never pee again).
No air conditioning on my bike to and from work today. Survived, but then I can't brag about how hot it was here, being on coast it was a a degree or so less hot than further inland according to the weather forecast. Don't carry a thermometer around with me to say for sure what temperature it was. Hot enough to try water from the cooler. Conclusion: not a good idea to drink something so cold when it's so hot. Tap water fine. #life-on-the-edge
Had a wee swim in Loch Morlich after tonights warm run. The water temperature was 20.7C Not much different from winter, just the decimal point in the wrong place 🙂
I did think Ted Cruz would be mentioned before Greg Abbott tho.
It was a toss up. Abbott gets it for the state laws!
Where in TX are you? It always felt hotter in Houston for me. But I quite the heat knowing that I can go and get a bit cooler in a building.
It's been a while since I did much in the UK. Do places like supermarkets and restaurants have AC?
Somafunk,
Thank you for responding I can’t really disagree with pretty much all of that, its when you see a bold statement and no context I’m curious as to what lies behind it. Unfortunately I see some of the same items encroaching into UK politics and life.
My situation here is hardly ideal but I’m stuck here for a bit and I too suffer from some of the things you list. That said it’s too common that people see these values and project them onto all Americans/Texans (I’m not suggesting you do by the way) when it’s fantastic people from here that have helped me through a very difficult time.
I’ll leave there - let’s back to how hot it is.
Proper first world inconvenience here, just back in from taking dog for a short walk now it’s down to about 24 degrees. Go to make a cold drink and the ice machine is empty 🙄. That’s never happened before, bloody teenagers !
It's still 29c here in Ely, at nearly 10pm! Thinking of sleeping on hammock in garden.
At least its dry heat. I can't remember dry heat in this country before?
you want more?
the climate. you forgot to mention the hideous climate.
i lived in houston for a couple of years. it really isn’t a very pleasant place. it made me realize that all the concerns that Europeans have for reducing co2 emissions is utterly pointless when places like texas exist.
My flat was not air-conditioned and I would just melt if riding the bike (flashbacks to a week-long camping tour called GOBA where I thought I’d never pee again).
Yeah, did a 5 day race a few years ago, 7 or 8 days staying in the same hotel, unairconditioned rooms (organisers saving money) coldest it got for the entire stay was about 26/27 degrees.
By about day 3 all the sheets were stained yellow with sweat, not to mention that we were getting though about 8-10 litres per stage and the same again in the evening/night/before breakfast.
Think i peed about once a day, after drinking a litre of water with breakfast.
No air conditioning on my bike to and from work today. Survived, but then I can’t brag about how hot it was here, being on coast it was a a degree or so less hot than further inland according to the weather forecast. Don’t carry a thermometer around with me to say for sure what temperature it was. Hot enough to try water from the cooler. Conclusion: not a good idea to drink something so cold when it’s so hot. Tap water fine. #life-on-the-edge
Go you!
What an utterly fabulous day that's been.
Nearly one in the morning. Still over 26 outside at the moment. Toddler has just woken up and puked her guts out all over the kitchen floor, hopefully heat related (really don’t want it to be a tummy bug in this heat). Not looking forward to tomorrow at all.
Let’s hope no one here suffers from “Daves” syndrome
10 - I’m in Austin. I think it’s generally a bit less humid here than Houston so the feels like temperature for a given air temp might not be so bad. Houston is a massive sprawl of a city too - I’m not a fan of Houston.
Love Austin. Who cares how hot it gets when you have Barton Springs!!!
5 degrees when I started my ride this morning. Mates had arm warmers on 🤣
Just got up for work after virtually no decent sleep and the flat hasn't dropped below 26 degrees, even with the windows open from 1am. Brushed my teeth in lukewarm water as the cold tap is no longer cold. Feel like crap despite drinking lots of water throughout the night but still don't need to pee. Probably shouldn't be going to work but I'll see how I feel when I get there.
I'm really not built for heat at the best of times, let alone when it's like this!