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I'm hot and grumpy and everything aches. Roll on winter!

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[–] matelt@feddit.uk 36 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Ooh! Ooooh! Me me me! Me! I am dying of death!

At least when you're cold you can pop another layer on, but when it's too hot and you took all your clothes off, what's next? Taking your skin off? Huh? I vote against.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

but when it’s too hot and you took all your clothes off, what’s next?

https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/tronic-3-in-1-air-conditioner/p10050898

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That's not really effective and they're sold out too. In spring I looked at a good one but didn't buy it because I didn't want to spend so much money. Now of course they're all sold out. I hope I won't be that stupid again next year.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same here. When looking to buy one during colder weather you look at the price and think: "Nah, that heat wave won't be so bad..." ... and a few months later it IS that bad.

Here it isn't only that bad, it's way worse. Holy shit, I'm dying.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago

If you're smart you'll wait till off season when they go on sale and snag one up.

[–] wingedassault@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Haha, "next year" like this is the last of it. I like your positivity.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

They become available again once it gets colder.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

Sold out 😒

[–] matelt@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

Nah nah nah we need to start with passive cooling first, where I'm from houses all have proper shutters that keep the heat out in the summer and the warmth in the winter. I just don't understand why it's not standard in the UK. Oh wait, that might have to do with your windows that open the wrong way round......

All I want is simple really, a 16° bedroom with a 10.5 tog duvet, all year long. What do you mean it's not realistic???

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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I'm like cereal.

Store in a cool dry place, away from direct sunlight.

[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Nah no winter. A very long autumn with mild temperatures please.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Winter kills the ticks though

Edit: oh wait this is a UK forum, please disregard if the UK is somehow blessedly free from America's scourge of ticks

[–] Fred@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

We have plenty of ticks thank you very much. My partner picks up ticks from walking the dogs about twice a week, I don't seem to get them very rarely

They carry Lyme disease, and a small number encephalitis

[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

You can always put on more clothes in cold weather. In hot weather, after a certain point, it becomes socially unacceptable to take off more clothes.

Also, bugs.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago

Personally, I prefer it to be hot. I don't like not being able to escape the heat, but at least it's light and there are flowers.

However, I don't like it to be this hot.

I was in Corfu in August a couple of years back. It was 40 deg C which was just painful. But it's currently worse here because it's just so fucking humid.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

20C is my preferred top end, anything after that and I start getting uncomfortable. 30C+ and I get increasingly irritable and headachey.

[–] Adonis1172@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

For me the heatwave has broken. I now have cool air blowing in the house. I just need the walls now to cool down and the inside temperature should return to normal-ish.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yup. Inside is boiling, outside is scorching, and walking for too long anywhere has me dripping with sweat which feels gross AF.

At least in the winter I can put more clothes on. Hard to take clothes off when you're already down to nothing.

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[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I find myself to be a bit of a contradiction with hot weather as I don't do well in the heat at all and struggle when it gets over 25 but at the same time I love it as it means its nice enough to spend lots of time outside doing all sorts of things which I love and this is harder to do in winter. Plus I find all the layers I have to wear in winter annoying. Give me shorts and T-shirt any day.

[–] DivineDev@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

But you can have shorts and a T-shirt already at 25, those extra 15 degrees just make it unbearable. (Greetings from a country where AC is basically Hitler)

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[–] minty@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago

Currently chillin with 5-10 degree weather here in Australia, but my god last summer was crazy. This summer I hope I survive lol.

Good luck to you in the UK, must be crazy hot in your brick, tripple glazed, zero air con houses

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I like seasons. It should be hot now, and it is.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It should be, sure - but the amount is still abnormal, dangerous, and anthropogenic.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Whatever is happening has nothing to do with either of the four seasons. There should be a name for this fifth thing. Like Inferno or something. Incinerator.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

I think the name is heatwave

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

We don't really get proper seasons anymore though. It's just drizzle from November to March, actually nice weather in March and April, followed by searing heat from late May to early October and then back to drizzle again. Winter no longer exists and summer takes up half the year

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[–] c64z86@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If it helps the nights began to get longer again on the 22nd of June, the day after the longest day of the year! That's what keeps me going.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 points 3 days ago

You're right that does give me hope

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

As someone who grew up in Florida - it gets a lot more bearable if you exercise outside when it is hot and drink a lot of water.

Since AC is ubiquitous where I grew up, I spent a lot of my youth completely de-conditioned to the heat, constantly moving from one air conditioned space to another, avoiding being outside whenever possible. But when I decided I was tired of being fat, and exercising would probably help with that, I started exercising outside a lot more. Often this meant playing ultimate frisbee in the middle of the day during school lunch breaks, or hiking all day on a backpacking trip in the swamp, or riding my bike around my university's campus. I found that as long as I was consistently exposed to the heat and regularly did some amount of high intensity cardio in it, I was generally quite comfortable most of the time.

And of course, exercise in the heat means sweating a lot, which means you need to drink a lot of water.

Some of it is psychological. After all, when you are sucking air after sprinting around for 5 straight minutes for a point playing ultimate in the direct sun, relaxing in the shade feels quite comfortable - even if it is hot and humid. And you also get used to being sweaty - it stops feeling "gross" and weird, and is just how life is. Which makes sense, since humans literally evolved the ability to sweat a lot for the purpose of cooling down in hot conditions.

Some of it is physiological. Eg, your body will learn to sweat more to release more heat. And I would also expect increased capillary density near the skin, so the body is more able to move blood to the body's surface and shed heat quicker. Also, after seeing Mexicans walk around in direct sun in 30° heat wearing sweatshirts and jackets because "it is chilly", I have a hypothesis that heat-adapted bodies simply produce less heat (maybe via decreased Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis?).

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

There's 'hot', and 'way too hot' but yes

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Warm is nice, the 35c+ we had yesterday can fuck right off. Low to mid 20s is alright, comfortable beach weather.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Same. I used to like hot weather when I was under 30 but even in my 20s was starting to dislike it. I don't mind a nice mild day but I could happily go through my life without every experiencing another day with temps over 25C. I still like 4 seasons, just don't need the summer to be very hot. Maybe 3 seasons would do, autumn, winter & spring so long as there was enough daylight hours for growing gardens.

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Isn't hot weather for you guys 20 deg C?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is it, and some places are close to 40°C this week so we're all melting

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm in Melbourne Australia.. Not melting this week

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It's bloody freezing down here!

...but somehow there's no snow on the alps either.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes. So when it hit 35-40 yesterday across a lot of the country, combined with the usual fairly high humidity, it felt like Satans taint.

[–] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

I'm fine at 35-40 but that's also like <10% humidity. I fucking hate humidity, good luck o7

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

Yep, that's really hot. 20 is shirtless barbecue weather for us.

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[–] scholar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I love the hot weather, it's relaxing and you can spend more time outside.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 3 days ago

Ahahaha, except where I am it's currently hot while raining and thundering!

My body feels battered. And I hate sweating.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

It's alreet when I'm not grafting in it.

Usually it's throwing up bars in marquees so it's double hot. Or driving work vans with no AC.

The roads where fucking awful today. It's scary getting stuck in traffic with no water

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

My house has no thermostat and landlord doesn't care. The walls are cracking and done off the windows don't close up (you can get a finger out while it's locked)

It's an oven in summer and a freezer in winter.

Hardly any openable windows either. At least they can't take my misting fan away

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