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Have an 8000 BTU Aircon unit on full blast in the living room - managing quite well to keep our open plan downstairs to below 25C at the moment. The area is well outside it's spec, so its only going to take the edge of the heat - not enough capacity to significantly chill the entire floor.
Only just passed 30 here in Shropshire, but we are approx at 600ft.
Not sure how much hotter it will get maybe 35 max ?
Still managing to keep the house at 22 with curtains and windows closed
Air con has now been switched off in the office. It’s 30 degrees outside.
Heard a tip on the radio for homeworkers: open your loft door. Last summer there was a wasps nest in mine so this will be a surgical procedure.
Heard a tip on the radio for homeworkers: open your loft door. Last summer there was a wasps nest in mine so this will be a surgical procedure.
Yes my brother mentioned this the other day!
Will open it now...
I’ve come into the office today as they have aircon, and my house doesnt…
Working for me, though many colleagues come in by train and are suffering at home. Management being pragmatic about attendance and productivity.
Daughter has two hours of gymnastics training tonight, suspect she may decide not to go.
My bedroom is in the loft. The door is staying closed!
31 here in Sheffield. Just been out to buy some glass, roads nice and quiet, can I work up the energy/enthusiasm to fit it though? Need to swim in beer (er rehydrate) later.
Read that conversation about women and windows and thought 'how strange' and have now just had that exact-same conversation, 'I need oxygen'. She's just tested symptom-less CV positive so I'll agree to anything.
Peak temperature in the great heatwave of 1976 was 35.9C - looks like many places will beat that today
Thermometer in my back garden is claiming 34-35 in the shade currently (seems a tad high, but still...). Fierce in the sunshine, tried a bit of DIY but beat a hasty retreat indoors.
Getting a bit hot behind the knees in Warwick.
As euphemisms go, it is a bit too obvious IMO.
34 on my Garmin in the shade at my house in Cardiff, but it doesn't feel that bad at all - not as hot as other hot places I've been at that temperature. I think that's because the sun is nowhere near as strong as it is in southern France or Utah.
Considering going for a ride. I may just wear lycra all round with my sleeveless top, rather than bothering with baggies.
Keeping curtains closed makes a big difference at preventing the room heating up in the first place, I've got white blinds with curtains behind and are working really well.
Heard a tip on the radio for homeworkers: open your loft door. Last summer there was a wasps nest in mine so this will be a surgical procedure.
I have my entire ceiling open to the loft in my utility room (shares a roof with the attached garage) due to renovation work. It is hotter in there than the rest of the house when you walk into it. Both lofts have all 4 sides with decent ventilation.
Currently 31 here and 25 in the bedrooms and 23 downstairs. I managed to get the bedrooms down to 22.5 this morning with windows opened when it was coolest. I expect it may be unpleasant tonight but fine at the moment. Yesterday the house was at 22 for most of the day and then went up a few degrees in the evening. The insulation helps a lot until it doesn't and you need cooler air flow which is obviously a waiting game until outside cools down enough.
All curtains closed on the sun side, loft door open. Tempted to go outside for lunch time walk but I don't see anyone else and don't fancy being a smouldering mound of burning flesh.
Heard a tip on the radio for homeworkers: open your loft door. Last summer there was a wasps nest in mine so this will be a surgical procedure.
??? Inside the loft will be the hottest place in my house. the 20cm of loft insulation will be doing a good job of stopping the heat transferring to the rest of the house
I have a portable LG Ac I brought back from the Middle East. Used it in the dry spell summer 2018 which felt a bit more roasty. Not too bad up here in Stirling right now. Nice to have some sun. House about 22 inside. Will see if the AC comes out tomorrow but I doubt it.
I am getting confused about the messages coming from Northern Rail - for tomorrow they are saying 'do not travel' (as opposed to 'don't travel unless you have to') however they are still operating some services. Surely if we must not travel there shouldn't be any trains running? Personally I'd rather get a train and sit in my air conditioned office all day rather than struggle to keep cool enough all day working from home.
Aircon on upstairs to keep upper floors cool - portable unit with the pipe sticking out the bathroom window. It's generally enough to keep the bedrooms cool - two are south facing ! The sun is now creeping round the back of the house onto the conservatory where I'm working. I probably only have a couple of hours where I can tolerate the heat, before bailing - working through lunch instead.
Office tomorrow, but not so sure I want to replace the pannier rack that snapped on Thursday - especially in the heat - will see how hot it is this afternoon, and decide if cycle commuting is wise tomorrow - cool ride in, but very hot back.
39.8 on my garden thermometer in Essex. How accurate I don't know but it's pretty ghastly out there
30 in the office which is fine with a few fans on and light clothing. Would be horrible if it was humid.
A lass just came in to work and started closing windows! No!!!!
According to my weather app the temp in Newcastle now is 30c (noon) My room temp is 24c. Still 4c less than the average (34c) of my hometown in N.Borneo where I would stand under the sun midday fishing ... like a fool with my friends. We seldom get sunburn (very) and hardly heard of heatstroke at all. We get very tan very quickly under the sun and I suppose that's the way we cope with the sun.
To cool down we drink plenty of coconut water and watermelon.
PSA ice spike winter tyres reduced by 71%
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I am getting confused about the messages coming from Northern Rail – for tomorrow they are saying ‘do not travel’ (as opposed to ‘don’t travel unless you have to’) however they are still operating some services. Surely if we must not travel there shouldn’t be any trains running?
Because someone still needs to be paid and they need to prove they didn't cancel it - the weather did it....
A lass just came in to work and started closing windows! No!!!
Now is a good time to close them tbh
A lass just came in to work and started closing windows! No!!!
If the office has air condition that's fine otherwise that's silly because the room will get very stuffy very quickly.
Aircon has been turned back on, despite the protestations of the coat wearers. 32deg outside
I opened the windows first thing and even the coldest room in the house is now a balmy 28. Remainder of downstairs is ~26. Upstairs (in the roof) it’s about 32. I think sleeping downstairs today might be the plan.
So ……. Did I make a mistake opening the windows or not closing them soon enough?
34 @ 1.00 here pretty fricking warm in the back garden!
I am getting confused about the messages coming from Northern Rail – for tomorrow they are saying ‘do not travel’ (as opposed to ‘don’t travel unless you have to’) however they are still operating some services. Surely if we must not travel there shouldn’t be any trains running? Personally I’d rather get a train and sit in my air conditioned office all day rather than struggle to keep cool enough all day working from home.
Because some people might have personal emergencies to attend to, or hospital workers might need to get to work, etc. SO might need to use the train, if there's a suitable one running, that is.
Everyone else should avoid travel if possible, especially on rail, strikes, buckled tracks and trains will be doing much lower speeds.
It's not rocket surgery, unless you want to get yourself into a tizzy over semantics.
Local weather station is showing 32.7°c, the record in Scotland is 32.9°c I think I read.
unless you want to get yourself into a tizzy over semantics.
This is STW. You've been here a while...you know what happens next 😀
I suggested opening the loft hatch but my wife won't let me in case "spiders come down". If there are spiders that are so big they need the loft hatch opening to travel downstairs then I'm moving out anyway
In the part of Spain I live it's regulary 40c each day now and seems to be going on and on. Already in May we had extreme 43c+ weather and unseasonable highs for over a week. June was also ridiculously hot too. Normally, May and June are very fine and lovely weather. After being in southern in-land Spain for the past few months, anything below 35 feels refreshing to me. Although humidity feels higher here, although not by much.
Geniunely concerned now; what are European summers going to be like in 2050, nevermind N.Afirca or the Middle East!
34° in Rowsley (Derbyshire Dales). It's grand sat outside the Grouse and Claret with an Estrella
My local does frozen glasses, a few Rattlers may be consumed later
PSA ice spike winter tyres reduced by 71%
That's a tip that TheArtist might well appreciate.
I can imagine that they might be the sort of tyres that he would like to use all year round.
Though he's probably too busy sunbathing right now to keep up with the thread.
I suggested opening the loft hatch but my wife won’t let me in case “spiders come down”.
sort of thing my wife would say...
room thermostat showing 26 deg in my upstairs home office/bedroom. I have a fan on blowing over a big bowl of iced water.
popped into work for 20 mins earlier on, they have no air con, windows open, flat roof, old building. it's going to get warm in there.
this is north Glasgow, so it'll be a bit toasty south.
richmtb
Heard a tip on the radio for homeworkers: open your loft door. Last summer there was a wasps nest in mine so this will be a surgical procedure.
??? Inside the loft will be the hottest place in my house. the 20cm of loft insulation will be doing a good job of stopping the heat transferring to the rest of the house
I wondered about this too. Our loft space gets absolutely boiling in warm weather.
I guess the idea is to let the heat out of the house like a chimney, but I think in our house it would actually end up making the upstairs even hotter.
Sat outside eating my lunch in the shade and it was bloomin' hot. Google reckons 34deg. C outside.
The house is much cooler; 25 downstairs 27.5 upstairs.
Debating taking my laptop downstairs in a bit, although it's not too bad at the mo.
On a positive and practical note can I just say what a great day it is for doing the laundry?
Still only high 20s in my garden (in Stirling):
29.1C to be precise.
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ISTIRLIN11
Exciting stuff.....
29 degrees in my little hospital room.
Not great but tolerable.
I guess the idea is to let the heat out of the house like a chimney,
That only works if the loft is well ventilated so the hot air can be drawn up through the house and out of the loft, which isn't the case for a lot of the UKs housing stock.
scotroutes
On a positive and practical note can I just say what a great day it is for doing the laundry?
Every Cloud!
We smashed the laundry at the weekend & got some of the carpets cleaned with one of those Vax carpet cleaner jobbies. It leaves the carpet quite damp, but dried super-quick with the temps in the house 🙂
In the part of Spain I live it’s regulary 40c each day now and seems to be going on and on. Already in May we had extreme 43c+ weather and unseasonable highs for over a week. June was also ridiculously hot too. Normally, May and June are very fine and lovely weather. After being in southern in-land Spain for the past few months, anything below 35 feels refreshing to me. Although humidity feels higher here, although not by much.
Geniunely concerned now; what are European summers going to be like in 2050, nevermind N.Afirca or the Middle East!
I does make me wonder how it will go, The spanish are kinda used to these temps for short periods, and so are far more sensible about limiting thier exposure when the sun is highest in the sky, the british, maybe not so much; 'it's just like being on holiday!'
Also our infrastructure isn't designed for these temps, see buckled rail tracks and melting roads, materials are chosen to operate within certain tollerances.