39°C in East of England

[RGC]

...and on course to reach 40°C in the next couple of hours. Productivity has gone out the window today. How do people function when their whole summer is like this! </moan>

[Sumez]

Meanwhile I'm still hoping for at least a couple more days where we're able to climb over 18 degrees here >_> We've had a week at most of actual summer weather this year

But I hope people in the UK will be able to manage, that kind of heat can be super danagerous!

[Sima Tuna]

Last year, we had a heat dome in the pacific northwest part of the united states. Temperatures in my area were around 110F. We were tied with Death Valley and the Sahara for the hottest places on the entire planet at that particular time of year. It was pretty miserable. My condolences. Air conditioning and alternative methods of temperature regulation (such as underground structures) may become more and more necessary as temperature extremes continue to increase.

[Mero]

I'm on nights tonight so got to go to bed in a minute, very warm in my flat . Roll on tomorrow morning.

[BIL]

Here OOP NAWFF by teh sea, it's *almost* like a regular day back home. That's pretty fuckin crazy given how much further Blighty is from the equator. As with the Caribbean, being next to the water takes a big chunk out of the heat. Still getting a bit of that asphalt-reflective heat action. Much excuse to sit outside drinking @ lunch enjoying a nice moan about the weather with everyone, carried home an icy bucket of Stellas because they're all birds and one gay lad watching they waistlines and I'm a great big hairy auld fucker.

But I hope people in the UK will be able to manage, that kind of heat can be super danagerous!

Word! The houses and buildings here don't seem built for it. For example, you'd never, ever see a vehicle without full air conditioning back home, even in a relatively poorer country (four-corner mini fans rigged up to the battery, at the very least). Metal box with glass windows = deathtrap. Here I've yet to see a city bus with the feature, despite offering Wi-Fi and USB ports and all sorts of other gubbins, and some of those fuckers you can't even open the windows. Hand fans help a bit.

[kitten]

french friend of mine is roasting and is stuck between opening their windows and allowing unbreathable air from all the fires (did you know that the french word for "fires" is "incendies?" isn't that weirdly cute?) in or risking hell in their room. she's usually a 24/7 logged in kinda person, never seen her offline this much. hope everyone is doing well and staying safe, keeping hydrated and all that jazz. don't forget to take care of your health if you're burning up, it's easy for "god damn it is hot" to slip over into "so, i learned a lot about how easy it is to have a heat stroke."

our car's AC is busted (3rd year in a row - we've spent a bunch getting it repaired, but with it failing after the 3rd attempt at a mechanic doing something only for them to essentially charge us several hundred dollars for freon that immediately leaks out, we're thinking about just getting a new car), which is annoying, but we're doing okay despite high temperatures and have a nice indoor temperature without running the electric bill too high.

[BIL]

did you know that the french word for "fires" is "incendies?" isn't that weirdly cute?

Haha, I know I've seen that word somewhere before but didn't twig it was French. Reminds me of Falcom's "Glacies."

[kitten]

did you know that the french word for "fires" is "incendies?" isn't that weirdly cute?

Haha, I know I've seen that word somewhere before but didn't twig it was French. Reminds me of Falcom's "Glacies."

[BIL]

Surprised Kanye hasn't picked up on that yet, then again maybe he wants to forget the Taylor Swift incident.

Goro I'ma reall happy for you and imma let you finish nyankies are the best Mappy enemies of ALL TIME!

[RGC]

Thanks for the well wishes folks, and for those who are _genuinely_ suffering with the heat (it's a mild inconvenience for me at most, really), please take care.

40°C is not a hi score to be proud of!

Good luck with the night shift, Mero. Please tell me you don't work in a kitchen!

[kitten]

Surprised Kanye hasn't picked up on that yet, then again maybe he wants to forget the Taylor Swift incident.

Goro I'ma reall happy for you and imma let you finish nyankies are the best Mappy enemies of ALL TIME!

you mean mewkies! you're thinking of NEW YORK NYANKIES. i had some sort of delirious breakdown when i discovered that was "the real name of a real game that i did not make up" and just kept repeating that on a call with a few friends years back. pretty good game, too, actually. though i'm a real sucker for grappling mechanics of any variety



really wanted a copy boxed but the box is worth like 4x the game in this one ;____;

[BIL]

Ha, was sure I'd gotten my wires crossed there somehow, went to search "nyankies" and your post was the first result. Yeah, surprisingly quality game, that. I never bothered springing for a copy - you know I'm more into the tough, compact ninja/army aesthetic with FC stuff - but it's plenty respectable.

[drauch]

Oh, nice. Guess I never thought to see what Rockin' Cats was originally called. Thought for a second we were talking about that manga about yakuza cats or whatever.

[Steamflogger Boss]

french friend of mine is roasting and is stuck between opening their windows and allowing unbreathable air from all the fires (did you know that the french word for "fires" is "incendies?" isn't that weirdly cute?) in or risking hell in their room. she's usually a 24/7 logged in kinda person, never seen her offline this much. hope everyone is doing well and staying safe, keeping hydrated and all that jazz. don't forget to take care of your health if you're burning up, it's easy for "god damn it is hot" to slip over into "so, i learned a lot about how easy it is to have a heat stroke."

our car's AC is busted (3rd year in a row - we've spent a bunch getting it repaired, but with it failing after the 3rd attempt at a mechanic doing something only for them to essentially charge us several hundred dollars for freon that immediately leaks out, we're thinking about just getting a new car), which is annoying, but we're doing okay despite high temperatures and have a nice indoor temperature without running the electric bill too high.

I absolutely chug water ever since a kidney infection years ago.

The AC in my house went out last week and it was awful. Thankfully it was taken care of quickly.

[drauch]

That's my big fear. News lady mentioned that it probably won't happen, but possible grid blackout for my neck of the woods next week with the heat wave. I have nightmare flashes of all my anime figures melting and pooling together into a tar pit of sorts, burying me alive. They'll find me 1,000 years later after the nuclear holocaust and think this is what civilization was like.

[Sima Tuna]

Stockpile tons of tons of ice, like the zombie man from H.P. Lovecraft's Cool Air. You can dump all the ice into your bathtub and live there for the next week.

[orange808]

Might get some non perishables and light sticks in case you lose power. I would get a case of water as well, because extreme heat can cause algae blooms. If you rely on the utility, they may be unprepared for the temperatures.

[Sengoku Strider]

Only time I've ever experienced heat like that is Japan. But there 40° was so humid it was utter death, the heat just clinging to every part of your body. Just walking a block left me dehydrated from gushing perspiration. I really fear for what's going to happen there over the next decade.

[GaijinPunch]

did you know that the french word for "fires" is "incendies?" isn't that weirdly cute?

Haha, I know I've seen that word somewhere before but didn't twig it was French. Reminds me of Falcom's "Glacies."

Villanueve flick - really fucking good one if you've not seen it.

[Blinge]

Working in a busy room with busted AC in london

fortunately was allowed to leave by half 2 and walking through those mean streets was bizarre to me. I've never felt such an urgent need to get to the next bit of shade.

There's limits to my daywalker status

[kitten]

Working in a busy room with busted AC in london

fortunately was allowed to leave by half 2 and walking through those mean streets was bizarre to me. I've never felt such an urgent need to get to the next bit of shade.

There's limits to my daywalker status

:[ take good care of yourself! i hate to reiterate like a doting parent in here, but it really is crazy easy to just keep putting up with incrementally worse until you think it's just normal and wind up doing actual damage to yourself. it's also easy to forget to drink water, which you more or less can't do enough of in these types of situations. pickle juice (along with water, don't ever use it as a total replacement lol) can be a really excellent source of emergency electrolytes if you or someone you know is getting heat cramps or the like (also excellent for preventing and treating hangover!).

[BIL]

did you know that the french word for "fires" is "incendies?" isn't that weirdly cute?

Haha, I know I've seen that word somewhere before but didn't twig it was French. Reminds me of Falcom's "Glacies."

Villanueve flick - really fucking good one if you've not seen it.

Aha! That must've been it, cheers GP.

Working in a busy room with busted AC in london

fortunately was allowed to leave by half 2 and walking through those mean streets was bizarre to me. I've never felt such an urgent need to get to the next bit of shade.

There's limits to my daywalker status

Stay safe bro! I inherited the -10 sun resist gene from my old man's transparently blonde people, an offshoot of the Gingerman race 3;

(this becomes a +10 vitamin D deficiency resist in cold places - no D, thanks! I have plenty of me own you feckin pooftas OwO)

[Bloodreign]

Currently 27 C here in the southern US...... at 3AM, this kind of heat here isn't unusual for at least 6 months of the year. Hell it got hot not even halfway into May, and June and July so far have been baking, with August's blistering heat still to come, right into September. Doesn't start actually really cooling off here till around Halloween.

Couple that heat with high humidity, and days can feel like sitting in the oven, and nights can feel particularly uncomfortable to sit outside, a perfect snack for mosquitoes. And when the occasional hurricane comes through, right after it cools a bit, but after that, much like before they come ashore, and it feels incredibly hot and sticky.

[Vexorg]

Seattle got one of those random heat waves last June. Before that happened the all-time recorded high in Seattle was 103f (~39.5c) which happened in 2009, and before that there had never been a recorded day above 100f(~38c). Then last June a massive heat wave came in and we got a day where the temperatures hit 110f(43c) in some places, but the official recorded high temperature at Sea-Tac Airport was 108f(~42.,2c). I'm sure on a geological time scale it's been hotter than that before (official recordkeeping only goes back to 1870) but that was by far the hottest recorded day here, and that particular day was very likely a 1,000 year event as the air currents off the Pacific Ocean make it very difficult for temperatures to get that high in this part of the country. Under more normal circumstances 95f(35c) is about as hot as it gets here. And given the La Nina currents that have given us an unusually cold spring this year high temperatures seem unlikely.

[BIL]

Goddamn, dunno if it's the heat but every baby seagull in the neighborhood did a header off the roofs this morning. Left a bowl of bread and water out as usual this morning, was surprised to hear the familiar chorus of squeaks all the way into town.

Nasty buggers when they get big, but what's more plaintive than a flightless baby bird doing laps around a baking-hot garden, eh. I wasn't used to how rude they can be when I first moved here, went to replace some shingles and wound up covered in shit. Had to borrow next door's fancy nailgun, beaky fuckers wouldn't let me use a hammer without going berserk.

Good weather for this.

Might get some non perishables and light sticks in case you lose power. I would get a case of water as well, because extreme heat can cause algae blooms. If you rely on the utility, they may be unprepared for the temperatures.

Good advice - there was an instance of exactly this about a decade ago, in the English North-West. Not sure if temperature was to blame, but we lugged a fair bit of water home that month. Kept a reserve every summer since.

[Sima Tuna]

It's never a bad idea to have a month's worth of food stored and at least a week's worth of drinkable water. No matter what the natural (or manmade) disaster, those things won't go to waste. You can always gradually eat away at the supply, rotating out the oldest items for new ones.

I noticed prices on non-perishable food items rose dramatically during the pandemic. Soup in particular tripled in price and has stayed at about that level. So what I do now is load up during sales and avoid it at other times. Canned goods are great for storage because rodents and other pests cannot penetrate them. Whereas even a single small mouse is more than capable of burrowing deep into a plastic container and spreading dried noodles (and rodent shit) all over your basement floor.

Of course, it would be ideal to never have a pest inside your home at all. But it depends where you live and how old your house is. Stockpiles of food have a way of drawing in pests.

Catastrophic weather tends to cause outages, and there's always a chance (now more than ever) of disruptions in service and supply.

[GaijinPunch]

Don't forget toilet paper.

[neorichieb1971]

Renhold in Bedfordshire UK has fields on fire about 4 miles from me.

It has rained today so maybe it put it out.

I tell my niece and young folks that they will see things in their lifetimes I've never experienced.

A trick I learned in the Philippines is spray yourself with water and sit 3 feet from a fan. Obviously don't go touching electric products dripping wet. It works well for those without A/C. When you get hot again, rinse and repeat.

[Nugs]

.How do people function when their whole summer is like this! </moan>

I live in Western Australia and it gets above 40c every summer, but we are set up for it, and we always get an afternoon sea breeze to cool things off.
When I lived in London I think it hit 30c once and it was horrible in comparison.

[Blinge]

Haha man, that literal 10 minute walk, hopping between bits of shade.. was enough to burn any parts of my neck/chest that were exposed

I was a pink boi yesterday