It’s 41 degrees in the shade!

me too .am so lethargic , keeping hydrated is a big problem for me with kidney problems .mostly i stay indoors.being in a flat is awful. communal gardens full of screaming kids unless me and a neighbour sit on the benches we dont get to sit out when the sun has gone.at least my slamming the doors neighbours have gone away for a few weeks..peace and quie

we get 10+ months of grey so 3 days heat is nothing let us who do like it enjoy the short heat please

In my bit of Northumberland at 11:00 am the temperature is 21°. It feels rather cooler than that though, as there is a breeze blowing.
I hope we avoid the thunderstorms later as I'm taking DGD down to the kayak club where she is going paddle boarding on the river.

Sorry,, must be the hot weather ,

Is there a country with weather and temperatures similar to our spring all year round? I want to move there.

I hate being cold in the winter and say I’ll never complain about being too hot ever again - until summer comes round and I’m too hot and then I swear I’ll never complain about being cold ever again!

Are the UK indigenous ever satisfied [sad[with Brit weather.

I’m in hibernation for all the wrong reasons
Hiding away from this sweltering season
I’m wearing the minimum though it’s not a nice sight
Exposing bare flesh makes me look quite a fright
My feet are in water. the fans are all blowing
And my electricity bill is growing and growing
If it goes on much longer I’ll turn into slush
And have an excuse for my brain going to mush!

by the biggest drip in Berkshire

Me too ! Have always said that the menopause destroyed my inner thermostat. I now perspire through my head and it just make my hair look sad and straggly. Give me Autumn and Spring anytime although I do enjoy early morning and summer evenings except when it is humid.

Why blame the weather presenter? It’s no good getting cross when we are just being given the facts - we just have to deal with it, close windows and curtains, run fans, and drink plenty of water.

Re air coolers, I bought one last year at great expense and it’s absolutely useless! Didn’t bring the temp down in the bedroom even 1 degree plus it’s incredibly noisy. Haven’t even bothered too get it out this year: total waste of money!

Thermometer outside the kitchen window read 34.6 just now - at 10.09 am, and the sun isn’t on that window at the moment.

Min and max for the previous 24 hours are reading, 20.7 and 38.6.

It’s ghastly here down in the south. I’ve lived in the tropics but they’re geared up for it there. Here, the houses are designed to hold the heat and we aren’t acclimatised to the temperatures. It prevents you from sleeping or exercising, kills the plants even if you water them, melts the roads etc etc. Plus sends all the idiots to the coast where they block up the roads, litter the beaches and even kill themselves by not respecting the sea! The heat makes me angry as you can see!?

I’ve only read the first page so far so I hope you haven’t all moved onto another subject! It’s 22.1 here in Portugal now. Quite cloudy too, it will probably clear later. I’ll let you know later when I shouldn’t be doing something else.

An air cooler is one that you put cold water in and as the fan blows air over it it cools the air. It’s definitely not as good as air con but every little helps. You don’t have to vent them outside and they are light and manoeuvrable. Unfortunately you might find they are all out of stock. At 8.30am it was 29 degrees here.

Apparently we had a ‘61%’ chance of a thunderstorm in the small hours last night.
I was longing for it to wake me up, so I could lie in bed listening to thunder and the rain pelting down.
Alas it never happened. ?

What exactly is an air cooler please Nina the nana?

It hit 38 at its hottest here yesterday. I loved the heat when I was young but find it too much now. I had to go to the dentist yesterday and being in town in the heat and then having to wear a mask for a short time nearly finished me off!

Got back and was in the flat with the fan going full pelt to cool down, fan gong all night to try and sleep. Granddaughters in and out of large paddling pool filled with cold water all day. I agree about hot water coming out of the cold tap too

It was 21c at 7am in Kent this morning.
The first thing I did when I came downstairs was switch the fan on. A friend said she had bought a air cooler which she found great. She lives in a flat and the cooler has castors so easy to wheel it to the bedroom at night. I may invest in one for the bedroom.

I wish Blackburn had a bit more of this hot sun than we have had! Today looks as we might be getting some of it and I hope so. I find being stuck indoors during a lockdown is very depressing.

ladymuck

I often think I must be the only one who dislikes hot weather. Nice to see I'm not alone.
The only good thing about it is being able to wear the minimum of clothing. So nice to just slip on a dress and knickers.

Not even knickers for me at the moment Ladymuck!

I agree MissAdventure post menopause I have not been able to cope with heat at all. Save a lot on heating bills in the winter as I very rarely have any heating on until the afternoon.
Spend more in the summer having fans on all the time though.

Stand by MiniMoon cases are packed I'm on my way.

Like BlueSky, I was always the first on a sun lounger. Since menopause, I’m hot all the time anyway. This is unbearable. I just keep reminding myself it will be over a lot quicker than the carnage in Beirut will be put right.

I can’t concentrate on anything with this blooming weather,

Weather obsessed every morning at the moment, really hoped this unbearable hot run might break yesterday evening, but no have woken again to what clearly is going to be another scorcher and another hot night to come according to weather forecast. Fan on again all last night. Charles II allegedly said about English weather "Three hot days and a thunderstorm" well it's been going on a lot longer than that now!

I have never got on with very hot weather but am definitely struggling with it more as I get older?

We have only had a couple of days of really hot weather.I really feel for those of you further south who have had days and days of it.

DD who loves to lie in the sun had booked to stay in Windsor for a few days and visit Legoland and Chessington but they came home a day early as the heat was unbearable.

Roll on autumn!