EXTREME WEATHER WARNING

LINK > www.nhs.uk/conditions/heat-exhaustion-heatstroke/

LINK > www.nhs.uk/live-well/seasonal-health/heatwave-how-to-cope-in-hot-weather/

StarDreamer

Sago

So it’s hot!
Millions of us leave Blighty every year to find sun for a week or two, when we get there we know what to do!
Please don’t panic everyone.

Each to their own.

No way would I go to try and find a hot place.

I am not panicing.

It is like when COVID-19 started and the media ranted about so-called "panic buying".

I remember Sky News, interviewing a woman who had just emerged from a supermaket building with a trolley piled high with food.

She, quite calmly, said that she was not panicing, the government had said that people might have to stay indoors for a fortnight so she was getting enough food for her children, her husband and herself for a fortnight.

I am not panicing. I am very concerned. I am quietly trying to think out what, if anything, I can do to help me survive such extreme temperatures.

You state "we know what to do". So could you tell me, and anyone else who would like to know, what to do please?

I honestly don’t know what you are concerned about, people who live in hot countries don’t stay inside for two weeks because it’s too hot. They get up early, do their jobs outside and their shopping, close their curtains, life goes on.
There’s a panic mentality in the UK that just isn’t warranted. We’re all adults, we know heat can kill, so we are sensible and don’t break the official guidance about keeping safe.

> I honestly don’t know what you are concerned about, ...

I am concerned about my health in this hot weather and in the predicted forthcoming extremely hot weather.

If you are not concerned then that is a matter for you.

I, and possibly a lot of other people, are concerned.
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Actually a lot of people in the "hot" countries are very worried. Look at the drought in Northern Italy. Certainly they are more sensible than us and keep their curtains drawn, stay inside in the worst heat, have a siesta and work in the morning and evening. But temperatures are going up all over.

When we lived in France, in an old stone building, shutters were closed during the day, opened in the evenings only, heat there was more manageable, less humidity and even in small villages the social life was in the evening.
Here, blinds stay closed nearly all day, dependent on the orientation of the room. Meals are lighter, dinner eaten later outside.

This is where I jump in with fanfare and dance as I hold up Magicool and beam from ear to ear ....

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I used to get through about a can of that a week during the menopause.

We are travelling on Sunday and because of the warning are leaving very early. We read today of someone who was travelling with their dog in the back of the car and when they arrived at their destination the dog had died.

I think that one of the biggest dangers to health is transport-related

It is likely that huge numbers of people will set off in their cars for the seaside or similar places, planning to cool off in the sea.

Accidents, delays or breakdowns could become life-threatening extremely quickly if people are stuck in their baking-hot cars on the motorways and their air conditioning isn't working or stops working.

Bring it on.

Seriously though isn’t all the advice common sense. .? Specially at the age most of us are.

I would have said that we are (I assume) all of us experienced and sensible enough to know how to behave in the occasional heatwave- stay inside if possible except early morning or evening when it is cooler, keep curtains shut and windows open especially on the cooler side of the house, a wet sheet may even be hung at an open window especially at night if it is exceptionally hot , stay hydrated, wear loose light clothing , don’t exert yourself, use a fan if you have one, keep food in the fridge to avoid it going off more quickly - and relax! ?????

Lucca

Seriously though isn’t all the advice common sense. .? Specially at the age most of us are.

I don't know.

I always take the view that it is always better to know twice than not at all.

I am very definitely not the type of person who gets indignant and stroppy if they are told something they already know.

It is not my nature - and anyway I don't need to!

Well said MawtheMerrier - really pleased that your suggestions don't involve air-conditioning. There's no need to warm up everyone else's air.

Our 'go-tos' are a wet towel around the neck and/or feet in a washing-up bowl of cold water. DD has succumbed to heat stroke a couple of times so we do take the warnings seriously.

On the other hand - it's raining quite hard here just now. Just saying!

It was very grey today, warm and humid.
Then it rained this afternoon.

1976 it's not. (Not yet, anyway)

I'm utterly useless in this heat and am dreading it getting any hotter. It's 23 degrees here now and I'm done for; listless, sweaty, can't eat, just feel wretched. I think I'm a snowflake!

It's DD's hool sports day next week- very high temperatures expected.
The problem is that, in this country, we are not well prepared for this as they are in some countries.

I've been to sports days in Australia, there are large outside shaded areas, children must wear hats, there are plenty of drinks on offer, free sun lotion etc. And that is in winter.

School sports day

Lucca

Seriously though isn’t all the advice common sense. .? Specially at the age most of us are.

Not everyone is as sensible as us ?

I am reminded of a quotation which was used at one time in the front of Everyman's Library books.

The quotation was from The Bible.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser

But it is not in this article, though the article is interesting.

LINK > Everyman's Library

StarDreamer I always take the view that it is always better to know twice than not at all..

Well Said!

lemsip

StarDreamer I always take the view that it is always better to know twice than not at all..

Well Said!

Twice maybe, but every time hot weather is predicted it’s the same advice, I’d guess most of us will have heard it at least 40 times by our advanced ages. It’s the same every time there’s a hint of snow.

“Don’t panic Mr Mainwaring! “
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nR0lOtdvqyg&autoplay=1

StarDreamer

Lucca

Seriously though isn’t all the advice common sense. .? Specially at the age most of us are.

I don't know.

I always take the view that it is always better to know twice than not at all.

I am very definitely not the type of person who gets indignant and stroppy if they are told something they already know.

It is not my nature - and anyway I don't need to!

I don’t get stroppy either. It’s just my opinion.

a lot of people are short on common sense.....they may well be clever with exams to prove it but common sense lacking!! it has been known!