Behaviour during the Heatwave

Train travel can be assisted - so wheelchair lifted on and off, and pushed down platform in main stations. Trains are aircon as is underground if they are in London. Bike shows are often at NEC or National Motorcycle museum - both are easy transport wise. Weather is warm here but cooler than for weeks; other areas are predicted rain.
You cannot put your life on hold just in case. If he had a stroke, he knows how unpredictable life can be.

I’d be more afraid of high winds and blxxxdy tree branches falling across the road unexpectedly which they are wont to do here. I just heard a mighty crack on our roof, another dent no doubt. High winds are unsettling, even the cats won’t go out.

argymargy

This weather is not "extreme". I really don't understand why people get hysterical when the temperature gets slightly nearer the level of what they go abroad every year to obtain!

Apart from the fact that many of us do not go abroad for sun each year, it tends to be a dry heat in many other countries, whereas here, owing to being an island country, it is very humid. This means that, say 27° can feel like 37° and is very uncomfortable. For people with preexisting health conditions, it can exacerbate them to dangerous levels. For me, the pollen count goes up to exponential levels and I get really bad hayfever. I am also extremely fair skinned and have to be very careful in the sun. When I was young and foolish, l managed to get heat stroke in Birmingham during a heatwave. The other problem is that we tend to have sudden brief spells of this weather so do not get a chance to become acclimatised to it. A friend of ours participated in a sixty mile cycle ride on Saturday, the hottest day of the year. To be fair, he has always cycled regularly but he is in his seventies and it seemed somewhat foolhardy in these circumstances. Of course, our maritime climate works in reverse in the winter where seemingly milder temperatures in the minuses can feel much colder and more raw than they really are because they are a damp cold rather than a dry cold.

I know some will find this funny.

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Allira

😂😂😂

I knew you would. 😂

petra

Allira

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I knew you would. 😂

Great to see what he was like as a baby 😂

It was around 28 today, nice in a cool house.

My life didn't stop, life is inside until dusk.

I believe I am right in saying that far more older people die of the cold then of heat. The BBC are always talking up 'climate catastrophe' - that is a whole other subject. I am 74 and the hottest time I lived through was the well-remembered 1976, worse than anything that I've experienced recently. It's just normal summer weather, maybe some days are one or two degrees hotter on some statistical average, but hey! that's not going to wipe us out. Each person has to make their own decision and paramedics (my daughter in law is one) have to deal with much greater stupidity than walking out on a hot summer's day.

petra

I know some will find this funny.

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ok I confess to living near Peter Kay, don’t break my cover on gransnet please.
One of my clever daughters got a place to read English at Leicester. She was in a three story, wonderful, Edwardian house in her first year. The only northerner, and one of few non wealthy group. She loved her time there But, first term lost count of the number of Southeners who said - you must all hate Peter Kay, the way he puts your town down….. nah, she said,we love him. He’s Bolton 💙

Iam64
Have you read any of his books? Side splitting funny😂

petra

Iam64
Have you read any of his books? Side splitting funny😂

Oh no!! I'll have a search.
Looking for something to lift the gloom.

He's the best thing since sliced bread 😁
🍞 well, that's unsliced but ykwim!

None of your business, they are adults and should know better.

mabon1

None of your business, they are adults and should know better.

Why doesn’t it surprise me that your comment is, like most of your others, a put-down? Can’t you ever be nice?

The main thing is to keep well hydrated with water and stay in the shade. I never go to the beach in this weather unless it's one close to cafes where I can take shelter for a while.

Yesterday, we did a car boot sale. Although warm where we were, it was windy and not too hot. I covered myself up as much as possible and wore a hat as well as slathering on the Factor 50 as l have extremely fair, freckled, easily sunburnt skin. My hair is a fairly dark brown now, but I had a lot of natural auburn highlights in it when I was younger and my skin colouring is typical red hair skin. I have had to be very careful in the sun all my life. In spite of all my precautions, I still managed to get sunburnt on my arm, which I discovered this morning. Oh well, I wait for the peeling and yet more freckles. I have never had even the lightest tan in my life. I am sure I will not break the pattern now.

Iam64

I have AF and mild copd. I can no longer tolerate heat above mid 20’s. I love gardening but realise the heat we have currently means walking my dogs by 8am (better for them anyway). I no longer feel comfortable in shade so it’s indoors with a fan

DH has had a bypass surgery, which was not entirely successful and he has damaged lungs, a pace maker and heart failure.

For him this weather is very difficult. Not helped by the fact that we are moving house, so are doing a lot of packing.

In fact, he can do very little, so I have been running myself ragged. The only conciliation has been finding out just how much stamina and strength I still have in my early 80s. Even the professional cleaners commented on it yesterday.

This weather may be fine for the fighting fit, heat worshippers, but those who dismiss the current heatwave and others we have as just 'normal' are either delude or cliate change deniers.

All the information coming from every environmental and weather forecasting source tells us that temperatures are rising and heatwaves are hotter and we are breaking temperature records in this country somewhere almost daily.

1976 was almost 50years ago and the fact that people still refer to it when thinking of hot weather, like the floods of 1947 and the cold winter of 1962/63, is because the weather conditions were so exceptional. But now we are having periods of temperature higher than 1976, regularly most summers.

This weather may be fine for me and those posters that are still in good health and fitness and live in the northern part of the country where it is cooler, but I find their lack of sympathy and understanding for those with out there benefits of health and fitness, living in what is currently overheated south where exceptional temperaturesare being experienced, illuminating.

If you worried about the weather, especially in this country you would never do anything, individuals must do what they want, and what they think they can do, however medically challenged they are, otherwise what's the point of life

petra

I know some will find this funny.

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I did. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Such great observational comedy. How many times have I heard parts of that conversation this summer?
Usually, because of our weather, followed a few days later by “it’s so cold, and it’s supposed to be summer!”

MickyT

If you worried about the weather, especially in this country you would never do anything, individuals must do what they want, and what they think they can do, however medically challenged they are, otherwise what's the point of life

I couldn't disagree more. There are times and circumstances, even in this country when climatic extremes mean that certain actions and behaviours put yourself or other people at risk.

Mountain rescue services and RNLI often put their lives at risk to find people who ignore weather warnings and go out for a mountain walk despite weather warnings, unsuitably dressed and with only a mobile phone. Too often they die, too often other people put their lives at risk to find their corpses.

Exactly the same in the heat. Look what happened to Michael Mosely last year. This country is currently as hot as the Greek island he is on.

DH has severe heart problems that are seriously taxed by the heat. We are working to ensure he survives this weather without a heart attack. He certainly is not putting his life at risk by trying to tale a morning walk. Henhas more common sense.

I'm not saying climb mountains, and how many really hot days do we get in a year, you've taken it all out of context MOnica

nanna8

I recommend not coming to Australia between December and late March if you find it hard to cope with warm weather! Especially Queensland and the North. You do get used to it,though. We once spent the Christmas period up in Darwin and after a week or so your body kind of adjusts. You can’t swim in the sea,though, too many crocs.

We always visit NSW I Jan -Feb. I’d rather sit on my DD’s veranda with a long cool drink and a book than endure our winter.
This year it was too hot to play tennis but not too warm to relax in the shed.

Norah

It was around 28 today, nice in a cool house.

My life didn't stop, life is inside until dusk.

Like a hamster😄
No work today so am vegging out in the house, which is old and cool ( a bit like me🤭) floaty dress and ice cubes in every drink.

Caleo

Two adults I know are travelling to a bicycle show today , in an inner city, from their home in a country village. One is overweight and recovering fro a serious stroke early this year. The other will have to push her wheelchair. Both are about sixty years old.

My son said !The world does not stop because there is a heatwave". I'm not going to argue with him , but do I think people should change their habit according to the extreme weather event.

Caleo asked about adults travelling, presumably in air con comfort, to bike show, perhaps also in air con location. I don't find enough fact to judge harshly.

However, only 30 in my area today, walk early and rest inside.

PamelaJ1

nanna8

I recommend not coming to Australia between December and late March if you find it hard to cope with warm weather! Especially Queensland and the North. You do get used to it,though. We once spent the Christmas period up in Darwin and after a week or so your body kind of adjusts. You can’t swim in the sea,though, too many crocs.

We always visit NSW I Jan -Feb. I’d rather sit on my DD’s veranda with a long cool drink and a book than endure our winter.
This year it was too hot to play tennis but not too warm to relax in the shed.

Hope there aren’t any spiders in the shed😁