How to keep cool in the hot weather

[plastic penguin]

Or put your underpants in the freezer....that should avoid any unecessary 'hanky panky' which will sap your energy! 😁

Done that. All I do know is my voice has gone up 2 octaves. I've made the Bee Gees sound like Windsor Davis.

 

[Tinman1952]

Done that. All I do know is my voice has gone up 2 octaves. I've made the Bee Gees sound like Windsor Davis.

😂

 

[Gray]

On this, the hottest day, spare a thought for Prince Andrew, he can't sweat ☹️

 

[plastic penguin]

Current temp in Surrey.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Walk the dogs early - don't avoid alcohol!

Definitely finding that a couple of cold ciders after the sun has disappeared around the side of the house are helping! Perhaps they could give this guidance nationally*?

(*Even the lowly rank of moderator makes me feel I should point out that I am joking here...)

 

[Friesiansam]

Definitely finding that a couple of cold ciders after the sun has disappeared around the side of the house are helping! Perhaps they could give this guidance nationally*?

(*Even the lowly rank of moderator makes me feel I should point out that I am joking here...)

I have bottles of Spitfire in the fridge.

 

[WayneKerr]

Thank god that's over, wasn't nice at all. Many more of these over the coming years and I fear I will become a statistic.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Hopefully not - though they did feel like days to endure. I bought a portable air con unit many, many years ago and there are years when it saw no use at all, in contrast to the last two nights...

 

[Friesiansam]

20 to 21C here today, lovely!

 

[plastic penguin]

Thank god that's over, wasn't nice at all. Many more of these over the coming years and I fear I will become a statistic.

It was only 3 days FFS.😋

We had a lovely thunderstorm last night. We were dancing in the rain. Plummeted 10 degrees in a few minutes.

 

[plastic penguin]

Strange really. Drove to the river, even though the actual temp was higher it felt cooler

 

[WayneKerr]

It was only 3 days FFS.😋

We had a lovely thunderstorm last night. We were dancing in the rain. Plummeted 10 degrees in a few minutes.

I work permanent late-shift and a rain shower hit here about 00:30, I stripped down to my underpants and ran round the garden... thought about going naked but that was probably a bit too far. I put my antics down to heat induced insanity...

 

[Al ears]

Thank god that's over, wasn't nice at all. Many more of these over the coming years and I fear I will become a statistic.

Admittedly the one in 1976 was not quite as hot but it lasted two months....

 

[Al ears]

Strange really. Drove to the river, even though the actual temp was higher it felt cooler

Hope you didn't dive in.....
We were out yesterday for a case of Cold Water Shock.... the man was lucky

 

[WayneKerr]

Admittedly the one in 1976 was not quite as hot but it lasted two months....

Agreed Al, I was 18 in '76 and handled it okay as far as I remember, my mother on the other hand did not as she was 56 at the time. I'm 64 now and I don't like heat or cold

 

[Tinman1952]

We were dancing in the rain.

 

[Tinman1952]

I work permanent late-shift and a rain shower hit here about 00:30, I stripped down to my underpants and ran round the garden... thought about going naked but that was probably a bit too far. I put my antics down to heat induced insanity...

"When I get older... losing my head...."
(with thanks to Lennon and McCartney)

 

[Gray]

I'm not much cooler today.
I've got one of those thermometers on card that the energy companies give out.
It's on 27, but that's as high as it goes. It usefully has 'too hot' printed next to the reading.

This is the first year I've worn shorts as an adult.
At school the P.E. teacher said,
"You boy, what are those two white bits of string hanging out of your shorts?"
I said, "They're my legs".

 

[Al ears]

Agreed Al, I was 18 in '76 and handled it okay as far as I remember, my mother on the other hand did not as she was 56 at the time. I'm 64 now and I don't like heat or cold

I understand, heat seems to affect elderly more than cold..... There's only so much you can take off...
It certainly kills more than the cold spells.
me, I am still ok with either as I worked in Africa for a good few years and it seems to have acclimated me, still struggle occasionally though.

 

[Tinman1952]

I understand, heat seems to affect elderly more than cold..... There's only so much you can take off...
It certainly kills more than the cold spells.
me, I am still ok with either as I worked in Africa for a good few years and it seems to have acclimated me, still struggle occasionally though.

We are certainly not adapted to survive heat in the UK. I read yesterday that when the temperature goes above 17 degrees C the death rate starts to increase! 😳

 

[Al ears]

We are certainly not adapted to survive heat in the UK. I read yesterday that when the temperature goes above 17 degrees C the death rate starts to increase! 😳

is that when we all go to Benidorm, get p*ssed and fall off balconies?

 

[Tinman1952]

is that when we all go to Benidorm, get p*ssed and fall off balconies?

😁

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

I read yesterday that when the temperature goes above 17 degrees C the death rate starts to increase!

That sounds fishy to me. If true, I suspect it's because people change their activity patterns - i.e. nothing to do with temperature per se.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

This is the first year I've worn shorts as an adult.
At school the P.E. teacher said,
"You boy, what are those two white bits of string hanging out of your shorts?"
I said, "They're my legs".

As we walk the dogs a lot all year round, I'm in shorts for a good chunk of the year. At least this way your legs are neither stringy nor white!

 

[Tinman1952]

That sounds fishy to me. If true, I suspect it's because people change their activity patterns - i.e. nothing to do with temperature per se.

Apparently so.....

Why a 40C day in the UK is deadlier than a 40C day in other countries

Britain is less able to deal with high temperatures than many other countries, according to global heat mortality data.

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