[Archived] The Weather

[speeeeeeedie]

The UK is currently experiencing one of its famed heatwaves and has been since the World Cup started. As an exiled Brit, this phoenomenon is now but a marvellous memory to me as whenever I venture home it is either the dead of winter or the ususal rain. I was in London in 2005 for their "hottest May day in 50 years". My memories of "silly season" give me a smile every time I think about it. I've been kept abreast of the weather by a host of bragging friends and relatives who regail me with soundbites such as:

"It's too hot to work". You can also insert sleep/cook/eat/think and any other everyday habit here.

"It's hotter than ..... today" Insert exotic locale here

Add to this news bulletins on hosepipe bans, stay cool tips, rumours of pubs runnning out of beer, supermarkets out of sausages and you have the makings of a very British comedy.

pg got me onto this topic with his musings. Does anyone have any other observations/anecdotes on the British summer.

[Rovers Air Force]

sorry mate, its too hot to post at the minute!

[grizfoot]

It's just nice. You moan when its hot you moan when its cold, you can't win

Nice day for a picinic

[Flopsy]

it doesnt feel as hot as it was last year - that year my computer kept crashing because it was too hot

[Simon Says]

Hotter still tomorrow.

93 degrees is forecast.

[Tris]

I was in Dublin this morning, and have never known it so hot there.

When I got back to London this afternoon, it was way hotter than Dublin - I thought I'd arrived in the tropics.

It's been a strange summer - as May turned to June I had to stick the heating on one evening. Since then, we've had a couple of these mini heat waves - and this one is beyond anything I can remember.

To speeeeeeedie's point - I think that it becomes such an issue here because we are a.) so ill suited to the heat and b.) so ill prepared. None of London's buses or tubes have air con. Terminal 1 at Heathrow - very little air con. Like a greenhouse today walking from the gate back to the main building.

Most modern offices do have air con - but most older buildings don't.

And where in many parts of the world (including the USA) you can buy a unit which props up a sliding window, pumps freezing cold air into any room (and CFCs out into the atmosphere like 10 fridges on speed) for about 50 dollars - you can't over here.

Cheapest are about 200 quid (but they don't wreck the atmosphere) - and for maybe 10 days out of 365 it's just not worth it. So when it is this hot we moan because it's hot at home, uncomfortably hot on the way to work, often hot at work, desperately hot on the way back, and then we can't flippin sleep at night cos it's too bloody hot!!

Edited July 17, 2006 by Tris

[Paul]

Keep your curtains closed during the day........it will keep the house much cooler.

[Eddie]

Keep your curtains closed during the day........it will keep the house much cooler.

Maybe so, but you'll look like a recluse freak. Very hot in Paris these days, I love it, though not always great when you live in an apartment.

[greggyk]

Its Global Warming.

THE WORLDS GUNNA END!!!

39 degrees in London on Wednesday is expected

[Paul]

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday I have to spend all day in the open, literally no shade, discussing bedding plant trials with customers. Being slightly follicly challenged today I'm going to buy a hat - style suggestions welcome!

[trs]

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday I have to spend all day in the open, literally no shade, discussing bedding plant trials with customers. Being slightly follicly challenged today I'm going to buy a hat - style suggestions welcome!

Something the size of a marquee

[greggyk]

This ok?

[Ste B]

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday I have to spend all day in the open, literally no shade, discussing bedding plant trials with customers. Being slightly follicly challenged today I'm going to buy a hat - style suggestions welcome!

Sod the hat.. the scouse afro is the way forward.

[ABBEY]

just shown some skallies here ////there after your hubs mr B

[Paul]

Got a nice panama............very fetching

[Ozz]

I have a digital thermometer on my desk, not in direct sunlight so it gives a proper number.

Today is offically the hottest day of the year so far on Preston Docks, we finally broke the 30 degrees barrier.

I had to catch the train back to Chorley last night, and most trains were either delayed or cancelled due to the heat causing the tracks to expand, leading to speed limits on the track! Max speed 20 MPH.

[Ozz]

Wow! We have just broke the 31 degrees barrier on my desk.

(In the shade)

[grizfoot]

Wow! We have just broke the 31 degrees barrier on my desk.

(In the shade)

I'm so glad we have fans

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Currently a brain busting 49 degrees out in Iraq!!!!!!

Its past the point of enjoyment when your have to work in this heat.

[Lee]

I was in Dubai a month ago and it touched 50, even the locals thought it was hot

[AlanK]

I work in an IT workshop.

No air con.

Been 37 in here since lunch time

Been above 35 all week

The fans are just shifting warm air.

1 hour 31 mins till a Carlsberg.

[Rovers Air Force]

Currently a brain busting 49 degrees out in Iraq!!!!!!

Its past the point of enjoyment when your have to work in this heat.

Cheers dude! I'd managed to forget what the heat was like out there, you know so hot that by the time you got back from the shower to your billet you were sweating again!

I'm trying to sleep through this heat as I am on nights....not fun! I wish I could turn the house 90 degrees!

[speeeeeeedie]

This link from The Sun sums up why I started this topic. Genius.

Pure comedy

[adopted scouser]

Thank god for the air conditioned office.

[SouthAussieRover]

I guess it'll be p>issing down by the weekend?

Surely a mighty thunderstorm is heading your way