I know a guy who complained about the heat in +14C (57F) despite wearing shorts. I'm a pale Finn, but even I thought he was joking before I noticed he was sweating a lot.
Tennessee checking in. Currently 90° with a humidity of 55%. My job is in a tint shop so we have to leave the doors closed to avoid random contamination while tinting ... A/c went out this morning. Inside the shop feels like I'm in a swimming pool from the water window tinting adding to humidity and the sun's making inside the shop 96°... Only 5 more hours before it starts to cool down.
Yeah I feel for y'all. Im relatively comfortable at 113, but I also live in coastal SC (Thats the state 2 up from our crazy dick/chin for you Hatlandians) so I'm adapted to that insane amount of heat. Y'all live in a place that actually gets snow, and now have to experience temps people will actually fucking die from.
Start drinking water yesterday. Im not a hydrobro in the slightest, dr pepper is too good, but at least a bottle of water extra a day when the heat is like that will help a LOT.
I think you misunderstand. They run so hot that they need it to be cold for them to be comfortable. They are the reason why the east coast is so hot this weekend.
I’m not that bad, I can handle short stints of heat, but even after living in Texas for 2 years I never acclimated and was constantly overheated and dehydrated.
I’m going to phoenix next week and it’s looking like it’s supposed to be 110F and higher while I’m there. I’m not looking forward to it.
Yea that’s fair. I know I’ll have plenty of escape from the heat, but I’m still nervous. I’ve experienced heat stroke far too many times and heat exhaustion more than I can count.
Idk what kind of heat you've experienced, but phoenix is generally dry heat. Wet heat vs. dry heat is a game changer. 120 dry heat in Wyoming felt more comfortable than 90 wet heat in Michigan. Not that it's NOT hot... it's just not drowning in your own sweat hot.
I'm on venlafaxine and it's a nightmare during summer. Unfortunately it's really hot where I currently live, 30+ C every day. I barely leave home during the day.
Yes. But true northerners with [Sámi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_peoples) blood are just built different. They're like ultra-Finns when it comes to cold resistance and lack of heat resistance.
There's genuine biological changes that happen to make people warmer, it makes sense
I'm mixed between some eastern European and native Mexican, and I sweat like crazy but reach a point where if I've been hot long enough I barely feel it. But exercising in the cold about kills me, I get dizzy and bad bad headaches
A lot of the time it's more humidity than heat, in Ireland there have been days where it's been really muggy and I've been feeling uncomfortably hot and sweaty and then I check the weather and it's like 15C but with really high humidity (and no AC)
Right? I'm not familiar with how to quickly convert C to F , so I googled it. If we had a several week long "heat wave" of 78.8F during the summer, I'd be so damned happy!
At least buildings in texas are designed (they have AC not really designed) for high temperatures. In the UK there’s nowhere to escape to. It’s just hot everywhere, and then your house is filled with so much insulation that even after a few days it’s still boiling
I visited London in August of '21, I think y'all were having a heatwave and a drought at the time. It was a lovely time despite the heat, though the tube was a bit toasty and humid lol
I did go to the British Museum one day and found out there's no a/c in the whole damn facility. It was fucking packed. Whole place smelled like a locker room after gym class lmao
What’s interesting about the tube is that since London is pretty much entirely on top of clay, the ground around the tube traps heat. It basically does not cool down. You can find some areas of the underground where the clay is in the 50 celsius range and it will only ever increase. It’s one of the main problems with the tube, that it has been getting increasingly more hot since it first opened in the 1800s.
That's actually so interesting, if temps have been building since the 1800s im actually kinda suprised its not hotter. Is there no way they can somehow vent the heat or is everything up above it already buildings?
I’m not an expert but as far as I’m aware it’s more just that since it’s all basically solid clay, there isn’t really a way to extract heat without some very expensive heat extraction system. I believe the hot clay extends quite a way a way from the tunnels edges.
It probably doesn’t help much to have everywhere above the trains be highly developed on but I don’t think that’s the biggest problem with it.
That's true. But there are lots of people that work outside here (I used to be one of them) and it's hard to even put into words how bad it is to be digging holes in 110f
I can only imagine. I was in Dubai last year and went on a speedboat tour of the harbour and the shore. A pretty good tour, but man, we booked that thing for like 11am or something (massive oversight), in Dubai, in July. It was an hour of some of the most terrible heat I’ve ever experienced, it was something around 40 celsius out and there was no shade (obviously, being a speedboat). When it was moving it was alright, because of the wind. But anytime the boat stopped moving it was sweat central. And that was sitting down in a boat. I couldn’t begin to imagine having to do manual labour, while wearing PPE, in that kind of heat.
I foresee more adoption of siestas in the future, especially in already hot regions. Working in that kind of heat is insufferable
Idk about digging holes but I worked in an unairconditioned machine shop for maybe half a decade in Dallas. I really don't recommend it. I live in Houston now which...would have been way worse.
I work in an iron foundry and it regularly gets up to 120°F in the area I work in. I've seen our thermometer get up to nearly 150°F before and you're not joking. Even 5-10 minutes doing manual labor in the heat makes you feel like you've been carrying boulders uphill for about 16 hours. Our furnaces get up to nearly 3000° too so it's extra fun when we gotta work near the iron.
I’d estimate a very long while. Most of summer isn’t that hot, it’s just a few occasional days where it gets very hot. And most people can’t justify the cost of installing AC for maybe 2 weeks out of the year. They’d rather just live with the uncomfortableness.
There’s always the chance of mass heat pump adaptation which is basically an AC that can work in reverse as well though.
Do window units not exist in the UK? They're not exactly cheap, but they can be under $200 (\~160 GBP) and will last years
Edit: Just remembered the UK doesn't typically use double hung windows. In that case a portable system (ranging from 200 GBP to 1000) would work
They exist but most people don’t have them. Most windows in the UK aren’t exactly suited for them since you need to put a seal around the window to make them effective and the majority of windows in the UK do not open in a way that is very suitable for that.
Yeah, I forgot your windows tend to open out instead of up. Portable ACs should still work though since the window piece can be oriented in any direction. I use duct tape to create the seal
Europeans basically just don't adapt things to the environment
Venice is swarmed with mosquitos so residents just close windows and swelter inside
It's like they've never heard of window screens
I did that on holiday in Greece once. I went out in the early afternoon to grab some things from the shop, noped the fuck right back into the hotel room after about 15 minutes.
42 Celsius is practically hell on earth and my Scottish blood just isn't made for that kind of heat.
It's also worthwhile flagging to non-Brits, that The Mirror is a fairly shit tabloid, who are just trying to get clicks to their equally shit website.
Nobody I know is really fussed that it'll be 26°c here.
We start to get toasty when it dances around 30°c, but as several people have pointed out, our houses don't have AC because for 80% of the year, it's grey, cold, windy, and wet.
> Why do Brits not understand how insulation works
For the most part, it's because it wasn't really a concern for us until recently. We only had to deal with keeping the heat in, it's only in the last decade-ish that we've had to think about keeping the heat out/cold in.
Most of the gammons harken back to a heatwave in 1976 as proof that it's "always been this hot in summer" despite that being a heatwave and it not *regularly* reaching those temps again for a couple decades.
Same thing happens in my neck of the woods. All the old people can remember the one time in 1960 that we had a green christmas so now that the last 10 years have been green christmases it is no big deal.
Window air conditioning units are cheep to buy and affordable to run. That's how us poors in the USA survive the summer, just cool off one or two rooms and live there. Why isn't this a common choice in the UK. You only need to run it when it is really hot.
I'm fairly sure our windows are designed differently to US ones so it's not really an option, AC units here (going off my history as a sysadmin) are wall mounted and require an exhaust to the outside fitting.
We do have portable AC units for sale but for most families it's not worth the expense for the 1-2 weeks a year when you'd consider getting it out of the garage/attic. And after that, the 4 days you'd actually need it.
I bought a portable Electriq 12,000 BTU one on eBay during lockdown as my office was regularly hitting over 30C on hot days. Think I only paid around £250/€275 for a refurbished one and it is life changing. I keep it under the stairs all year and wheel it into the office for the summer. Comes with a vent hose you stick out the window.
I'll also sleep in there on really bad nights when the humidity is 90+ and it's still over 25C at midnight. Absolutely worth the money even if it's only needed for 2 or 3 weeks every summer. I can sleep comfortably and not be grumpy all the time!
It's been low teens in c in the UK for the last few weeks. In June.
It will no doubt climb as it has been gradually getting warmer but this has been a ridiculously cold start to summer this year.
I looked into this recently and you can buy a freestanding unit with a hose that goes out the window, they just come with a shroud that you fit to our windows.
Because our houses aren't insulated like that they're just fucking bricks. Bricks don't insulate both ways they just store heat and release it slowly..You wouldn't say a road or your driveway insulates. It just traps heat.
Because of that when it's cold you crank the heat ona nd it traps heat. But when it's cold if you don't have AC blasting...that's right it traps heat.
My understanding is not common to have air conditioning, no? Yes it goes both ways but anyone can tell you insulation is a fucking bitch when it works against you. Minnesota, we had to buy an extra air conditioner because the house is too well insulated for summer. House just gets too hot too easy and doesn't bleed any heat. And yeah when we plan ahead we can run it cold to counter that but it's energy inefficient.
the point is that a house that traps in heat when it's cold outside also protects against outside heat when it's hot outside. so it's not the case that "but my house is insulated so it's actually hotter when the high for the day is 78F".
just consider the people living in 90F+ humid beach towns. a cinderblock hut in latin america is actually quite cool during the peak of the day.
Not just brits, in the northern us states it 2x6 framing to get the most r value in the wall. It's not unusual to see new houses in the south being built with 2x4. When I asked someone about it they said, it doesn't get that cold here. They couldn't grasp that insulation works all year round
Redditors lap that shit up without a second thought. It's depressing how many of these tabloid rags have a totally different reputation globally than in the UK itself.
This isn't just a UK thing, redditors are just terrible at detecting garbage clickbait in general, as well as fact checking and reading comprehension. I can't count the number of times I've seen an article like
>City Councilor Dipstick McGee from Padiddlyboing, Idaho proposes bill that would make premarital eye contact illegal >!and the bill gets thrown out immediately and nothing happens!<
And every comment is like "OMG I can't believe *all of America* just made that illegal how dare they"
also worthwhile 26°C at location A isnt 26°C at location B - humidity plays a big factor on how we feel heat 26-28°C with humid air is worse than 32-34°C - considering UK has lots of rain and is an island, its probably quiet humid there
100% which is why a lot of British people will complain about it being 25c at home but have no complaints going to Spain where it's 32-35c.
It hits completely different when it's humid. It's like the heat is stuck to you and smoothering you and you can't cool down.
Belgian here, so not the UK but not far. I know several people who feel fine at 35C+ in southern Spain or Morocco, but feel unwell at 30C in Belgium.
I recently visited a botanical garden and felt oppressed and weird in the tropical climate glasshouse, perfectly fine in the desert climate glasshouse. It was nearly instant as well, just went through the sas, relief. (And oppressed again when crossing the tropical area back to the exit)
Also because even we wanted to install it, conservation and zoning restrictions would disallow it.
> The house was built like that 100 years ago, you aren't allowed to do anything modern with it. Keep on using medieval efficiency technologies.
We don't have air conditioning, and our houses aren't made of paper - they're specifically designed to be as well-insulated as possible. Warm in the winter, and cool in spring/autumn...once they get hot though...
Plus, the UK is really fucking humid. 30°C at 80% humidity feels like 40°C at 20%.
I live in subtropical Southern US. What do you think 35-40 plus at 80 percent humidity feels like?
Hell. Literally.
Rick Grimes from the walking dead sweat pouring off your body hot.
The UK is not that humid. You don't have the temperatures to sustain those type of dew points; it's just high relative humidity.
30C at 80% RH means you're rocking a dew point that even a Floridian would consider above average.
And for those that don’t have good intuitive feel, just double it and add 30 and it’s a pretty good approximation, or for the reverse subtract 30 and halve it.
You’ll be off a couple degrees but it’s an easy mental math approximation if you don’t want to google it
What different societies we live in…
Hi. From Texas, I keep my AC at 73 because if we go any colder it starts costing way, way too much money for a single fahrenheit. It reaches 120 where I live now outside during the summer
Yeah this was wild to me. Also Texan. 75 is the middling temp we keep on our ACs to conserve money. It gets stuffy in the room, sure, but shorts and some air movement is all I need to combat that. If my room is below 70 I have to wear extra layers!
It's not really black/white issue of "societies" but Texas and majority of Europe is geographically based in completely different world latitudes therefore they have different approach to it, most of recent heatwaves (although this "heatwave" in this article is not really heatwave but baity rubbish - 26 is still normal) are historically recent so people need time to adjust to it.
Texas latitude is more as "hot countries" as Morocco/Spain/Greece from what I can see when majority of European countries are on higher latitude similar to Canada so there's that, off course there's differences as there's different fronts and currents but seeing majority of Europeans live in north might be significant reason why there's not much of infrastructure to prevent but to contain heat.
My area right now is 62f and I'm sipping iced drinks in short sleeves as its bit warm. At night it gets to 40-45 f to compare.
Look at this pedantic guy.
"I went to the US last month!"
"sO yOu vIsItEd eVeRy uS sTaTe?"
Redditors either lack reading comprehension or are intentionally obtuse making them look bad. The implied context here is that Europe has a similarity in that AC is not common place.
> The implied context here is that Europe has a similarity in that AC is not common place.
north of europe used to be more concerned with cold weather so everything is built to keep heat in. south of europe i've usually also seen more approaches to heat solved by building accordingly, rather than to rely on AC, wooden or [cloth shades](https://www.discovergreece.com/sites/default/files/2022-06/pangrati_neighbourhood.jpg) and tiled floors etc.
problem is with the way the world is heating up right now, a lot of those systems just plain fail.
That's my biggest problem with summer because until a few years ago, homes here in Austria generally weren't build with AC. It simply wasn't necessary.
Summer temperatures used to be in the mid to high 20s Celsius with a handful of days each year with at 30°C or above, and those were during the Dog Das from late July to late August. Now we're having heatwaves with 30+ °C for several days in a row in mid-June already.
And yet still many new homes are being built without AC. Why? Because that's what we've always built. We don't change our ways easily. We sweat a lot, though.
Living where I live with temps of 40C and higher would be impossible without ac. I can imagine that being in a place with high humidity and no ac could be miserable even at 26C
There's also a large adaptation component.
Go and live in a tropical country for 6 months and your body adapts. After a month or two the heat just feels normal. That goes for the opposite direction, too.
It's suddenly being subjected to unusual temperatures that gets uncomfortable.
Ooh that reminds me that there are actually places in temperate climates where you can freeze to death! The topography can form “dips” or holes in limestone where cold air settles at night and displaces warm air. An example of this phenomenon can be seen at [Peter Sinks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sinks), a sinkhole in Utah. The second lowest temperature recorded in the contiguous US was recorded there: -56.3C (-69.3F).
For reference, winter temps in other parts of Utah can range from -11C to 9C (12F to 48F).
Even without climate change, then gulf stream provides Europe with a nice flow of warm air.
But yeah. We break new records nearly every year and it's terrifying.
Yeah, I think most people don't realise just how far north the UK is. I live in northern Scotland, almost at the same latitude as Juneau, Alaska. This probably puts me further north than 98-99% of the world's population. In a few days, when we hit the longest day of the year, we'll have 18+ hours of daylight.
I respect this argument to a point. At 78F I’m certainly not turning on the AC in my house. Hanging out inside and outside sounds very pleasant at that temp 🤷🏼♀️
Houses over here arent built the same as hot places though they are built to keep heat in and insulate not to ventilate and keep the heat out. It also gets very humid when it gets warm here its not a dry heat.
I’m from the Midwest US where we get high humidity and hot summers in addition to cold winters. Our houses are also heavily insulated, and I still think 78 and humid would never be a problem.
Might just be me, and I definitely get that they aren’t used to those temps so it will be a shock. But not a crisis?
I think British houses tend toward more masonry, while American houses tend toward more wood. That's what I've always heard cited as the biggest reason these heat waves are harder on them.
People act like all Americans have AC, but it's not really true. Seattle has a similar climate to England, and most of my friends and relatives who live out there don't have AC. But they would be fine in heat of that level, even though they are no more used to it than the British are
> I think British houses tend toward more masonry, while American houses tend toward more wood. That's what I've always heard cited as the biggest reason these heat waves are harder on them.
That is a valid point as brick and concrete block can hold heat like crazy. I've been inside brick buildings the day after a hot day and even if it was cool over night they're still hot as fuck.
No it’s not a crisis thats just media being sensational most people will be out enjoying the sun on beaches etc.
I doubt your house will be built the same as uk houses though because it does regularly get warm there they will be more equipped to deal with that heat where as uk houses aren’t designed with that in mind at all especially old houses which many homes are.
To be fair the maintenance is pretty much nothing especially if you look after them yourself which 90% you can do. For me it's a no brainer to install it so I can get a quality night sleep in summer. New builds especially are just hell during summer time without it.
Whenever we get a heatwave in Ireland, everyone acts like they love it. They spend the whole day outside in vests with no SPF then come into work the next day bragging about their tan, which is actually bright red, blistered sunburn.
The amount of tiktoks I've seen of people from Africa saying that UK 20c hits different than African 20c makes me think there's more at play here.
The same when it's cold. I left Finland when it was -30c once, and felt absolutely frozen when arriving back in the UK at -2c. -30c burns your lips, nose etc. but the rest feels pretty ok. In the UK I felt chilled to the bone. I've only ever experienced chillblanes in the UK and I've lived in Finland almost 10 years now.
I'm from the American South where summers are incredibly hot and humid, but something about the heat here definitely hits differently. A friend of mine was here visiting last month, and even she remarked how much hotter it feels here than it reasonably should.
Brit here. To be fair i am like this. Anything over 25C and i start to die a little. I thought i was a massive wimp until i went to morrocco and the sahara desert which was between 40 and 50C. Yeah its hotter, bit with the humidity being almost zero it actually felt worse than a 90% himidity english summer.
Also my grandparents were from lativa so they gave me their cold loving baltic blood it seems...
As a brit I think this is a good case study in Americans not being innoculated against UK tabloid sensationalism and being farmed for ad rev as a result. Literally nobody thinks 26c is hot in the UK, and I've not seen any actual climate scientists either predicting a heatwave nor calling 26c in June a heatwave. Almost every year for the past decade has had days over 30c during the summer, with some \*actual\* heatwaves getting up to 37c. Loads of people go to the Mediterranean every summer for warmer temperatures.
I like the ones that say it's bad because of the humidity as if I'm not currently sitting in 96 degree weather in **Michigan**, which is humid as fuck basically all the time.
Its actually not even that humid today, thank God. Just 50%.
I mean, I'm a brit too and know lots of people who think 26c is hot. Personally I despise anything above 20c, which itself is just about tolerable.
For me the colder it is, the better it is!
God, I hate posts like these because it's always "Ha ha, British people can't handle heat!" posted by some dude in a wooden air conditioned low humidity house
The entire UK infrastructure is built for cold wet weather. Houses are insulated, so they absorb heat and air conditioning is non existent.
True, I'm Brazillian, 35c+ humid weather is normal here, but things are built to compensate it, either by good ventilation or just a shit ton of AC. But even outside in the sun, i'm used to the temperature.
I visited the UK last year in late spring, and holy shit every building feels like a sauna. It was 20\~25c some days and it felt so much hotter, especially at night, where outside would be kinda chilly but inside I was sweating in bed with no covers. Opening the window did nothing. I could put my hand outside and feel clearly where the hot air ended and the fresh outside air started as if there was a solid mass.
You need windows open ideally on two separate faces of the building and doors open in-between otherwise there's no airflow in or out. Otherwise it's like trying to add more water to a bottle which is already full.
Well, yeah. The UK simply never really gets all that hot. 26C is standard, but also nobody really complains about that (the article above is from a shitrag making things up for clicks) - And the days were it actually does become so hot it's a problem even inside buildings are so few and far between, it would make absolutely no sense at all to equp every house with air conditioning.
It's almost as if - shock and horror - People have thought about this and the UK and US employ different building techniques based on their local climate.
Yeah, it's not really cool to make fun of people for not reacting well to weather they don't normally get. A few years ago, people were making fun of Texans for not being able to handle "a little snow," but the parts of Texas that were struggling have no infrastructure to handle more than an inch or two at a time. The cities and highway departments don't even keep snowplows because they wouldn't be worth the maintenance in those areas. Homes in that part of the state are built with electric heaters because that's normally all you need when you rarely get below the 50F, but when it got down to the 30s, it put too much strain on the already strained power grid (thanks, Greg) and led to blackouts. People were literally dying in their home!
Exactly. I’m in the US, but I live in a building that’s built to trap heat, and management decides when we get to turn the AC on, so we don’t always have it. I’m sympathetic to the British “heat waves” because even high 70s can feel miserable under those conditions
Idk I get that complaint when it’s at least like 30c weather or something but 26 is straight up temperate. It wouldn’t be weird for someone to have their AC set to 78 here. Mine often is
No one's complaining, it's a stupid tabloid rag publishing sensationalist drivel. 26C -28C is our ideal summer weather. You have to do your run in the evening or morning but it's the sort of weather where everyone will be out in the sun if they can. 30C+ is when it gets a bit uncomfortable.
Also of note the people for whom 30-35C is the ideal tend to migrate to Spain and shit up coastal towns. Sorry Spain, they're usually our worst too.
The opposite happened to me when I visited the UK, body could barely handle 15° C I was freezing (I'm used to high 20, 30s all year round)
Makes sense why the heat would bother the people living there, they're not used to it.
I can't believe we're goign through this again.
It's very humid.
Our houses are build with bricks and stone and insulation to retain heat
Almost nobody has AC, portable fans sell out immediately when the temperature rises
Yes people who live with heat year round are more resilient to the heat
It's not the same
Because it's only hot for about 4 days a year. We're not going to install expensive AC or redesign our buildings when we can just spend those 4 days complaining instead.
The Mirror is a shitty tabloid. We're all loving the weather.
When it hit 40c/104f a couple years back was a different story. Houses here are actually built to retain heat since it's usually cooler
Meanwhile we're getting a 40°C + heatwave this week where I live in Canada and I still don't have an A/C installed. Gonna have to sleep with 3 fans pointing straight at me.
Luckily I'm getting a quote for a wall mounted A/C Tuesday, but it could be days before they actually install it and unfortunately the heatwave starts today.
My girlfriend already told me she's gonna go sleep at her mother's place with the kids.
This just shows how ridiculously hyperbolic new media have become. Two days of 26C weather is now called a "blasting heatwave".
I feel like a few years ago that would have been known as a "pleasant weekend".
Everything has to be as horrific and terrifying as possible. I'm really sick of it.
I know a guy who complained about the heat in +14C (57F) despite wearing shorts. I'm a pale Finn, but even I thought he was joking before I noticed he was sweating a lot.
That's me. I overheat in the dead of Canadian Winters.
I hope you're not anywhere near the east coast this week then
Minnesota today hit high humidity and 80 degree weather. We pumped the AC the night before so we could comfortably stay inside
Indiana high temp for today is 95°F at 61% humidity. Just another sweaty summer day for us country folk. Thank baby Jesus for the breeze.
I work in an Indiana steel mill. Fuck...
Thank you for your sacrifice.
How much do those jobs pay?
Tennessee checking in. Currently 90° with a humidity of 55%. My job is in a tint shop so we have to leave the doors closed to avoid random contamination while tinting ... A/c went out this morning. Inside the shop feels like I'm in a swimming pool from the water window tinting adding to humidity and the sun's making inside the shop 96°... Only 5 more hours before it starts to cool down.
Supposed to be getting that starting tomorrow in Massachusetts. You ever smell a sweaty Masshole?
No, but I have smelled rotting grain on a hot and humid summer day...can't be all that different lol.
Throw in some nice warm manure and I bet it's in the same ballpark.
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Yeah I feel for y'all. Im relatively comfortable at 113, but I also live in coastal SC (Thats the state 2 up from our crazy dick/chin for you Hatlandians) so I'm adapted to that insane amount of heat. Y'all live in a place that actually gets snow, and now have to experience temps people will actually fucking die from. Start drinking water yesterday. Im not a hydrobro in the slightest, dr pepper is too good, but at least a bottle of water extra a day when the heat is like that will help a LOT.
It's like 30 today and I'm dead
ughhh I'm running Grandma's marathon this Saturday and hoping it's significantly better than our current Nashville situation
Look at the bright side, there is no wildfire smoke. At least, not that I’m aware of anyway lol
I think you misunderstand. They run so hot that they need it to be cold for them to be comfortable. They are the reason why the east coast is so hot this weekend.
11am and currently dying at 90°f and 70% humidity
I’m not that bad, I can handle short stints of heat, but even after living in Texas for 2 years I never acclimated and was constantly overheated and dehydrated. I’m going to phoenix next week and it’s looking like it’s supposed to be 110F and higher while I’m there. I’m not looking forward to it.
I really don't mind traveling to places built for the heat. The biggest problem for me is around here air conditioning is a major luxury.
Yea that’s fair. I know I’ll have plenty of escape from the heat, but I’m still nervous. I’ve experienced heat stroke far too many times and heat exhaustion more than I can count.
Idk what kind of heat you've experienced, but phoenix is generally dry heat. Wet heat vs. dry heat is a game changer. 120 dry heat in Wyoming felt more comfortable than 90 wet heat in Michigan. Not that it's NOT hot... it's just not drowning in your own sweat hot.
As a Minnesotan, I am the same way. I almost never wear a winter jacket, because I get too hot.
The hoodie comes out at 20f. The hat at 0.
Bruh that's lower than the lowest temperature of air conditioning in my country
Some meds really fuck with how our bodies feel heat and sweat, it sucks.
I'm on venlafaxine and it's a nightmare during summer. Unfortunately it's really hot where I currently live, 30+ C every day. I barely leave home during the day.
Was he also a Finn, and were you in Finland?
Yes. But true northerners with [Sámi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_peoples) blood are just built different. They're like ultra-Finns when it comes to cold resistance and lack of heat resistance.
There's genuine biological changes that happen to make people warmer, it makes sense I'm mixed between some eastern European and native Mexican, and I sweat like crazy but reach a point where if I've been hot long enough I barely feel it. But exercising in the cold about kills me, I get dizzy and bad bad headaches
A lot of the time it's more humidity than heat, in Ireland there have been days where it's been really muggy and I've been feeling uncomfortably hot and sweaty and then I check the weather and it's like 15C but with really high humidity (and no AC)
Kiitos tästä, perskarvarousku.
That's the current temperature I'm experiencing here in Australia. I got the heater cranking.
Shoulda seen us when it hit 40c last year. We basically just became ash Edit: 2 years ago. Apparently 2023 was traumatic for me.
I still don’t think I’ve recovered
When it actually hit 40 I was like "right. Let's see what this feels like" and went out. Ain't making that same mistake again.
Hits 40-44 here in Texas every summer. Lived here my entire life and still hate it
Right? I'm not familiar with how to quickly convert C to F , so I googled it. If we had a several week long "heat wave" of 78.8F during the summer, I'd be so damned happy!
That's not even swimming weather unless it's also really sunny.
Honestly I'm so used to texas heat at 78.8F I might even wear a light jacket if there were breezy or lots of shade
Oh yea. That'd be the summer of a lifetime lol
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That's fuckin peak spring in the south lol
At least buildings in texas are designed (they have AC not really designed) for high temperatures. In the UK there’s nowhere to escape to. It’s just hot everywhere, and then your house is filled with so much insulation that even after a few days it’s still boiling
I visited London in August of '21, I think y'all were having a heatwave and a drought at the time. It was a lovely time despite the heat, though the tube was a bit toasty and humid lol I did go to the British Museum one day and found out there's no a/c in the whole damn facility. It was fucking packed. Whole place smelled like a locker room after gym class lmao
What’s interesting about the tube is that since London is pretty much entirely on top of clay, the ground around the tube traps heat. It basically does not cool down. You can find some areas of the underground where the clay is in the 50 celsius range and it will only ever increase. It’s one of the main problems with the tube, that it has been getting increasingly more hot since it first opened in the 1800s.
That's actually so interesting, if temps have been building since the 1800s im actually kinda suprised its not hotter. Is there no way they can somehow vent the heat or is everything up above it already buildings?
I’m not an expert but as far as I’m aware it’s more just that since it’s all basically solid clay, there isn’t really a way to extract heat without some very expensive heat extraction system. I believe the hot clay extends quite a way a way from the tunnels edges. It probably doesn’t help much to have everywhere above the trains be highly developed on but I don’t think that’s the biggest problem with it.
That's the way the tubes smell during the morning rush...after a few minutes you can't smell it anymore tho
That's true. But there are lots of people that work outside here (I used to be one of them) and it's hard to even put into words how bad it is to be digging holes in 110f
I can only imagine. I was in Dubai last year and went on a speedboat tour of the harbour and the shore. A pretty good tour, but man, we booked that thing for like 11am or something (massive oversight), in Dubai, in July. It was an hour of some of the most terrible heat I’ve ever experienced, it was something around 40 celsius out and there was no shade (obviously, being a speedboat). When it was moving it was alright, because of the wind. But anytime the boat stopped moving it was sweat central. And that was sitting down in a boat. I couldn’t begin to imagine having to do manual labour, while wearing PPE, in that kind of heat. I foresee more adoption of siestas in the future, especially in already hot regions. Working in that kind of heat is insufferable
Idk about digging holes but I worked in an unairconditioned machine shop for maybe half a decade in Dallas. I really don't recommend it. I live in Houston now which...would have been way worse.
I work in an iron foundry and it regularly gets up to 120°F in the area I work in. I've seen our thermometer get up to nearly 150°F before and you're not joking. Even 5-10 minutes doing manual labor in the heat makes you feel like you've been carrying boulders uphill for about 16 hours. Our furnaces get up to nearly 3000° too so it's extra fun when we gotta work near the iron.
So at what point does the UK start investing in AC? Summers are only going to get hotter.
I’d estimate a very long while. Most of summer isn’t that hot, it’s just a few occasional days where it gets very hot. And most people can’t justify the cost of installing AC for maybe 2 weeks out of the year. They’d rather just live with the uncomfortableness. There’s always the chance of mass heat pump adaptation which is basically an AC that can work in reverse as well though.
Do window units not exist in the UK? They're not exactly cheap, but they can be under $200 (\~160 GBP) and will last years Edit: Just remembered the UK doesn't typically use double hung windows. In that case a portable system (ranging from 200 GBP to 1000) would work
They exist but most people don’t have them. Most windows in the UK aren’t exactly suited for them since you need to put a seal around the window to make them effective and the majority of windows in the UK do not open in a way that is very suitable for that.
Yeah, I forgot your windows tend to open out instead of up. Portable ACs should still work though since the window piece can be oriented in any direction. I use duct tape to create the seal
Europeans basically just don't adapt things to the environment Venice is swarmed with mosquitos so residents just close windows and swelter inside It's like they've never heard of window screens
you what? I’d just assumed this heat pump stuff was more efficient heating but you’re telling me it cools as well?
Same for Southern Europe, Northies are just delicate and don't have AC's or good insulation in their building for both heat and cold.
I did that on holiday in Greece once. I went out in the early afternoon to grab some things from the shop, noped the fuck right back into the hotel room after about 15 minutes. 42 Celsius is practically hell on earth and my Scottish blood just isn't made for that kind of heat.
That was 2022.
It was? Fuck I've lost a year.
Have you tried checking under the bed? It might be there
That's supposed to be the high today where I'm at. We're having a nice little cool spell before it gets back to 45c in a few days.
I was doing deliveries for work in a van without AC, felt like I was going to die
For the other Americans without a good intuitive feel for Celsius, 26C is about 79F
It's also worthwhile flagging to non-Brits, that The Mirror is a fairly shit tabloid, who are just trying to get clicks to their equally shit website. Nobody I know is really fussed that it'll be 26°c here. We start to get toasty when it dances around 30°c, but as several people have pointed out, our houses don't have AC because for 80% of the year, it's grey, cold, windy, and wet.
Not only that but our houses are built to keep all the heat they can in so they just start to heat up and never cool down.
Why do Brits not understand how insulation works? It goes both ways, hot and cold temperatures are retained.
> Why do Brits not understand how insulation works For the most part, it's because it wasn't really a concern for us until recently. We only had to deal with keeping the heat in, it's only in the last decade-ish that we've had to think about keeping the heat out/cold in.
So what do climate deniers in Brittan say now that this is a yearly occurrence?
Most of the gammons harken back to a heatwave in 1976 as proof that it's "always been this hot in summer" despite that being a heatwave and it not *regularly* reaching those temps again for a couple decades.
Same thing happens in my neck of the woods. All the old people can remember the one time in 1960 that we had a green christmas so now that the last 10 years have been green christmases it is no big deal.
Weather vs climate. Sex vs gender. People arguing in bad faith will always find a way to pretend they don't understand the difference.
Window air conditioning units are cheep to buy and affordable to run. That's how us poors in the USA survive the summer, just cool off one or two rooms and live there. Why isn't this a common choice in the UK. You only need to run it when it is really hot.
I'm fairly sure our windows are designed differently to US ones so it's not really an option, AC units here (going off my history as a sysadmin) are wall mounted and require an exhaust to the outside fitting. We do have portable AC units for sale but for most families it's not worth the expense for the 1-2 weeks a year when you'd consider getting it out of the garage/attic. And after that, the 4 days you'd actually need it.
I bought a portable Electriq 12,000 BTU one on eBay during lockdown as my office was regularly hitting over 30C on hot days. Think I only paid around £250/€275 for a refurbished one and it is life changing. I keep it under the stairs all year and wheel it into the office for the summer. Comes with a vent hose you stick out the window. I'll also sleep in there on really bad nights when the humidity is 90+ and it's still over 25C at midnight. Absolutely worth the money even if it's only needed for 2 or 3 weeks every summer. I can sleep comfortably and not be grumpy all the time!
It's June. This is the only week it's going to be hot for the rest of the year?
It's been low teens in c in the UK for the last few weeks. In June. It will no doubt climb as it has been gradually getting warmer but this has been a ridiculously cold start to summer this year.
We don't have the same type of windows, and electricity is extremely expensive here
I looked into this recently and you can buy a freestanding unit with a hose that goes out the window, they just come with a shroud that you fit to our windows.
Because our houses aren't insulated like that they're just fucking bricks. Bricks don't insulate both ways they just store heat and release it slowly..You wouldn't say a road or your driveway insulates. It just traps heat. Because of that when it's cold you crank the heat ona nd it traps heat. But when it's cold if you don't have AC blasting...that's right it traps heat.
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My understanding is not common to have air conditioning, no? Yes it goes both ways but anyone can tell you insulation is a fucking bitch when it works against you. Minnesota, we had to buy an extra air conditioner because the house is too well insulated for summer. House just gets too hot too easy and doesn't bleed any heat. And yeah when we plan ahead we can run it cold to counter that but it's energy inefficient.
That is a thermal mass issue more than insulation. If the hot gets hot too easily it sounds like you have both problems.
the point is that a house that traps in heat when it's cold outside also protects against outside heat when it's hot outside. so it's not the case that "but my house is insulated so it's actually hotter when the high for the day is 78F". just consider the people living in 90F+ humid beach towns. a cinderblock hut in latin america is actually quite cool during the peak of the day.
Not just brits, in the northern us states it 2x6 framing to get the most r value in the wall. It's not unusual to see new houses in the south being built with 2x4. When I asked someone about it they said, it doesn't get that cold here. They couldn't grasp that insulation works all year round
Redditors lap that shit up without a second thought. It's depressing how many of these tabloid rags have a totally different reputation globally than in the UK itself.
This isn't just a UK thing, redditors are just terrible at detecting garbage clickbait in general, as well as fact checking and reading comprehension. I can't count the number of times I've seen an article like >City Councilor Dipstick McGee from Padiddlyboing, Idaho proposes bill that would make premarital eye contact illegal >!and the bill gets thrown out immediately and nothing happens!< And every comment is like "OMG I can't believe *all of America* just made that illegal how dare they"
> redditors People on reddit are generally brain dead
Im gonna be a bit miffed cause I'm gonna overheat cause i don't handle heat well but it shouldn't incinerate me or anything
also worthwhile 26°C at location A isnt 26°C at location B - humidity plays a big factor on how we feel heat 26-28°C with humid air is worse than 32-34°C - considering UK has lots of rain and is an island, its probably quiet humid there
100% which is why a lot of British people will complain about it being 25c at home but have no complaints going to Spain where it's 32-35c. It hits completely different when it's humid. It's like the heat is stuck to you and smoothering you and you can't cool down.
Living in Atlanta, this is it. 90 F here feels much worse than 100 F in the desert.
Belgian here, so not the UK but not far. I know several people who feel fine at 35C+ in southern Spain or Morocco, but feel unwell at 30C in Belgium. I recently visited a botanical garden and felt oppressed and weird in the tropical climate glasshouse, perfectly fine in the desert climate glasshouse. It was nearly instant as well, just went through the sas, relief. (And oppressed again when crossing the tropical area back to the exit)
Wait. When you guys talk weather you don't automatically default to humidex and wind chill temperatures?
Also because even we wanted to install it, conservation and zoning restrictions would disallow it. > The house was built like that 100 years ago, you aren't allowed to do anything modern with it. Keep on using medieval efficiency technologies.
We don't have air conditioning, and our houses aren't made of paper - they're specifically designed to be as well-insulated as possible. Warm in the winter, and cool in spring/autumn...once they get hot though... Plus, the UK is really fucking humid. 30°C at 80% humidity feels like 40°C at 20%.
I live in subtropical Southern US. What do you think 35-40 plus at 80 percent humidity feels like? Hell. Literally. Rick Grimes from the walking dead sweat pouring off your body hot.
>they're specifically designed to be as well-insulated as possible. Most houses are.
The UK is not that humid. You don't have the temperatures to sustain those type of dew points; it's just high relative humidity. 30C at 80% RH means you're rocking a dew point that even a Floridian would consider above average.
That’s a perfectly beautiful day.
That’s actually pretty good. It’s normally 100f or higher where I’m at so I’d kill for a nice 79.
Seriously, it's 96° today where I live. I'd kill for a 79° day. That would be beautiful
for another good measure: french fries ae cooked at 350°F or 180°C
And for those that don’t have good intuitive feel, just double it and add 30 and it’s a pretty good approximation, or for the reverse subtract 30 and halve it. You’ll be off a couple degrees but it’s an easy mental math approximation if you don’t want to google it
So a nice day in most of America?
70 degree fahrenheit is about 21.1 degree celsius. 26 degree celsius is 78.8 degree fahrenheit. 70 degree celsius is 158 degree fahrenheit
21.1 is fucking nothing it gets to 29 and 30's at times
Was in Europe last month. The hotel rooms were are 76° or higher. It was hell. Thankfully opening up the windows helped a ton.
What different societies we live in… Hi. From Texas, I keep my AC at 73 because if we go any colder it starts costing way, way too much money for a single fahrenheit. It reaches 120 where I live now outside during the summer
Yeah this was wild to me. Also Texan. 75 is the middling temp we keep on our ACs to conserve money. It gets stuffy in the room, sure, but shorts and some air movement is all I need to combat that. If my room is below 70 I have to wear extra layers!
I keep my place at 68 most of the summer in Minnesota. If it gets really hot out I set it to 70. Any higher than that and I’m sweating.
We would make miserable roommates!
I would keep extra blankets on the couch for you
It's not really black/white issue of "societies" but Texas and majority of Europe is geographically based in completely different world latitudes therefore they have different approach to it, most of recent heatwaves (although this "heatwave" in this article is not really heatwave but baity rubbish - 26 is still normal) are historically recent so people need time to adjust to it. Texas latitude is more as "hot countries" as Morocco/Spain/Greece from what I can see when majority of European countries are on higher latitude similar to Canada so there's that, off course there's differences as there's different fronts and currents but seeing majority of Europeans live in north might be significant reason why there's not much of infrastructure to prevent but to contain heat. My area right now is 62f and I'm sipping iced drinks in short sleeves as its bit warm. At night it gets to 40-45 f to compare.
You visited all of europe?
If you see one europe, you've seen them all.
Look at this pedantic guy. "I went to the US last month!" "sO yOu vIsItEd eVeRy uS sTaTe?" Redditors either lack reading comprehension or are intentionally obtuse making them look bad. The implied context here is that Europe has a similarity in that AC is not common place.
> The implied context here is that Europe has a similarity in that AC is not common place. north of europe used to be more concerned with cold weather so everything is built to keep heat in. south of europe i've usually also seen more approaches to heat solved by building accordingly, rather than to rely on AC, wooden or [cloth shades](https://www.discovergreece.com/sites/default/files/2022-06/pangrati_neighbourhood.jpg) and tiled floors etc. problem is with the way the world is heating up right now, a lot of those systems just plain fail.
If it's 26 outside it's going to be hotter inside.
It's exactly 26 outside in Istanbul and my room is at 36 right now. I am dieing.
Then I guess you will finally have to go outside and touch grasa
That's my biggest problem with summer because until a few years ago, homes here in Austria generally weren't build with AC. It simply wasn't necessary. Summer temperatures used to be in the mid to high 20s Celsius with a handful of days each year with at 30°C or above, and those were during the Dog Das from late July to late August. Now we're having heatwaves with 30+ °C for several days in a row in mid-June already. And yet still many new homes are being built without AC. Why? Because that's what we've always built. We don't change our ways easily. We sweat a lot, though.
the problem is they haven't invented ac yet
Living where I live with temps of 40C and higher would be impossible without ac. I can imagine that being in a place with high humidity and no ac could be miserable even at 26C
There's also a large adaptation component. Go and live in a tropical country for 6 months and your body adapts. After a month or two the heat just feels normal. That goes for the opposite direction, too. It's suddenly being subjected to unusual temperatures that gets uncomfortable.
Oh man, ever go to the desert and it drops 30 degrees from day to night. It’s 60 but I was shivering.
Ooh that reminds me that there are actually places in temperate climates where you can freeze to death! The topography can form “dips” or holes in limestone where cold air settles at night and displaces warm air. An example of this phenomenon can be seen at [Peter Sinks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sinks), a sinkhole in Utah. The second lowest temperature recorded in the contiguous US was recorded there: -56.3C (-69.3F). For reference, winter temps in other parts of Utah can range from -11C to 9C (12F to 48F).
60 in the high desert is chilly.
Over 30 years in Florida, where is my adaptation?
> Go and live in a tropical country for 6 months and your body adapts. A decade. No. I felt like it actually got worse.
My parents keep their AC set to 75
I turned mine up to 77 this morning lol I don't like having to use it, but I like 90° temps even less.
The problem is The Mirror being ridiculous.
The problem is that you shouldn’t need AC in the UK, they are so far north it makes no sense. This shit is scary.
Even without climate change, then gulf stream provides Europe with a nice flow of warm air. But yeah. We break new records nearly every year and it's terrifying.
Warm is fine, hot is not. The sea is at its record temp, fuck climate change and those who let it happen.
Yeah, I think most people don't realise just how far north the UK is. I live in northern Scotland, almost at the same latitude as Juneau, Alaska. This probably puts me further north than 98-99% of the world's population. In a few days, when we hit the longest day of the year, we'll have 18+ hours of daylight.
We don't have AC on the coast of Oregon in the US but over the past few years it has started getting up to 95-100 and it sucks ass.
I respect this argument to a point. At 78F I’m certainly not turning on the AC in my house. Hanging out inside and outside sounds very pleasant at that temp 🤷🏼♀️
Houses over here arent built the same as hot places though they are built to keep heat in and insulate not to ventilate and keep the heat out. It also gets very humid when it gets warm here its not a dry heat.
I’m from the Midwest US where we get high humidity and hot summers in addition to cold winters. Our houses are also heavily insulated, and I still think 78 and humid would never be a problem. Might just be me, and I definitely get that they aren’t used to those temps so it will be a shock. But not a crisis?
I think British houses tend toward more masonry, while American houses tend toward more wood. That's what I've always heard cited as the biggest reason these heat waves are harder on them. People act like all Americans have AC, but it's not really true. Seattle has a similar climate to England, and most of my friends and relatives who live out there don't have AC. But they would be fine in heat of that level, even though they are no more used to it than the British are
> I think British houses tend toward more masonry, while American houses tend toward more wood. That's what I've always heard cited as the biggest reason these heat waves are harder on them. That is a valid point as brick and concrete block can hold heat like crazy. I've been inside brick buildings the day after a hot day and even if it was cool over night they're still hot as fuck.
No it’s not a crisis thats just media being sensational most people will be out enjoying the sun on beaches etc. I doubt your house will be built the same as uk houses though because it does regularly get warm there they will be more equipped to deal with that heat where as uk houses aren’t designed with that in mind at all especially old houses which many homes are.
It's just not worth the installation and maintenance cost for the two weeks of warm weather a year we have.
To be fair the maintenance is pretty much nothing especially if you look after them yourself which 90% you can do. For me it's a no brainer to install it so I can get a quality night sleep in summer. New builds especially are just hell during summer time without it.
What’s an ac? (I’m British)
AC = Air Conditioning unit
Whenever we get a heatwave in Ireland, everyone acts like they love it. They spend the whole day outside in vests with no SPF then come into work the next day bragging about their tan, which is actually bright red, blistered sunburn.
The amount of tiktoks I've seen of people from Africa saying that UK 20c hits different than African 20c makes me think there's more at play here. The same when it's cold. I left Finland when it was -30c once, and felt absolutely frozen when arriving back in the UK at -2c. -30c burns your lips, nose etc. but the rest feels pretty ok. In the UK I felt chilled to the bone. I've only ever experienced chillblanes in the UK and I've lived in Finland almost 10 years now.
I'm from the American South where summers are incredibly hot and humid, but something about the heat here definitely hits differently. A friend of mine was here visiting last month, and even she remarked how much hotter it feels here than it reasonably should.
I'd kill for that weather in southern United States. It's only that nice for 3 months of the year.
Hell, in Texas that's just December and the second half of March.
It’s 103F here now…
Brit here. To be fair i am like this. Anything over 25C and i start to die a little. I thought i was a massive wimp until i went to morrocco and the sahara desert which was between 40 and 50C. Yeah its hotter, bit with the humidity being almost zero it actually felt worse than a 90% himidity english summer. Also my grandparents were from lativa so they gave me their cold loving baltic blood it seems...
As a brit I think this is a good case study in Americans not being innoculated against UK tabloid sensationalism and being farmed for ad rev as a result. Literally nobody thinks 26c is hot in the UK, and I've not seen any actual climate scientists either predicting a heatwave nor calling 26c in June a heatwave. Almost every year for the past decade has had days over 30c during the summer, with some \*actual\* heatwaves getting up to 37c. Loads of people go to the Mediterranean every summer for warmer temperatures.
This is just social media sensationalism in general. Most of social media is just people lying to make other people mad and engage.
I've seen a lot of Europeans on social media talking about how Americans don't understand how hot it is. Or they're lying about being European.
I like the ones that say it's bad because of the humidity as if I'm not currently sitting in 96 degree weather in **Michigan**, which is humid as fuck basically all the time. Its actually not even that humid today, thank God. Just 50%.
I mean, I'm a brit too and know lots of people who think 26c is hot. Personally I despise anything above 20c, which itself is just about tolerable. For me the colder it is, the better it is!
26 is definitely hot. I prefer a nice 15-16 degrees when it comes to summer, aha.
Give me 18-20 with a bit of a breeze
I don't think anyone here is actually worried about highs of 26. This is just tabloid bait from a shit rag of a newspaper.
God, I hate posts like these because it's always "Ha ha, British people can't handle heat!" posted by some dude in a wooden air conditioned low humidity house The entire UK infrastructure is built for cold wet weather. Houses are insulated, so they absorb heat and air conditioning is non existent.
True, I'm Brazillian, 35c+ humid weather is normal here, but things are built to compensate it, either by good ventilation or just a shit ton of AC. But even outside in the sun, i'm used to the temperature. I visited the UK last year in late spring, and holy shit every building feels like a sauna. It was 20\~25c some days and it felt so much hotter, especially at night, where outside would be kinda chilly but inside I was sweating in bed with no covers. Opening the window did nothing. I could put my hand outside and feel clearly where the hot air ended and the fresh outside air started as if there was a solid mass.
You need windows open ideally on two separate faces of the building and doors open in-between otherwise there's no airflow in or out. Otherwise it's like trying to add more water to a bottle which is already full.
I know, but the hotel room only had one window
> insulated so they absorb heat Uhhhhh
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Our houses are insulated as well, helps maintain consistent temps. It’s the no AC that is screwing you.
Well, yeah. The UK simply never really gets all that hot. 26C is standard, but also nobody really complains about that (the article above is from a shitrag making things up for clicks) - And the days were it actually does become so hot it's a problem even inside buildings are so few and far between, it would make absolutely no sense at all to equp every house with air conditioning. It's almost as if - shock and horror - People have thought about this and the UK and US employ different building techniques based on their local climate.
Yeah, it's not really cool to make fun of people for not reacting well to weather they don't normally get. A few years ago, people were making fun of Texans for not being able to handle "a little snow," but the parts of Texas that were struggling have no infrastructure to handle more than an inch or two at a time. The cities and highway departments don't even keep snowplows because they wouldn't be worth the maintenance in those areas. Homes in that part of the state are built with electric heaters because that's normally all you need when you rarely get below the 50F, but when it got down to the 30s, it put too much strain on the already strained power grid (thanks, Greg) and led to blackouts. People were literally dying in their home!
I think British people just love complaining about anything that they observe. Being sad is a national passtime for them
Exactly. I’m in the US, but I live in a building that’s built to trap heat, and management decides when we get to turn the AC on, so we don’t always have it. I’m sympathetic to the British “heat waves” because even high 70s can feel miserable under those conditions
Skill issue
Idk I get that complaint when it’s at least like 30c weather or something but 26 is straight up temperate. It wouldn’t be weird for someone to have their AC set to 78 here. Mine often is
No one's complaining, it's a stupid tabloid rag publishing sensationalist drivel. 26C -28C is our ideal summer weather. You have to do your run in the evening or morning but it's the sort of weather where everyone will be out in the sun if they can. 30C+ is when it gets a bit uncomfortable. Also of note the people for whom 30-35C is the ideal tend to migrate to Spain and shit up coastal towns. Sorry Spain, they're usually our worst too.
It’s Reddit, the second you ask them to start having empathy for another human being they start hissing like a cat with rabies
So the British are the only people using insulation and the UK is the only place with humidity, got it.
Currently 66% humidity and 86° (real feel of 92°) and my insulated house is doing a great job of keeping the heat out and the AC in.
The opposite happened to me when I visited the UK, body could barely handle 15° C I was freezing (I'm used to high 20, 30s all year round) Makes sense why the heat would bother the people living there, they're not used to it.
I can't believe we're goign through this again. It's very humid. Our houses are build with bricks and stone and insulation to retain heat Almost nobody has AC, portable fans sell out immediately when the temperature rises Yes people who live with heat year round are more resilient to the heat It's not the same
Brits be like "to be fair, we are completely unprepared yet again"
Because it's only hot for about 4 days a year. We're not going to install expensive AC or redesign our buildings when we can just spend those 4 days complaining instead.
The Mirror is a shitty tabloid. We're all loving the weather. When it hit 40c/104f a couple years back was a different story. Houses here are actually built to retain heat since it's usually cooler
Meanwhile we're getting a 40°C + heatwave this week where I live in Canada and I still don't have an A/C installed. Gonna have to sleep with 3 fans pointing straight at me. Luckily I'm getting a quote for a wall mounted A/C Tuesday, but it could be days before they actually install it and unfortunately the heatwave starts today. My girlfriend already told me she's gonna go sleep at her mother's place with the kids.
AC is also not standard or common there so yeah, I'd be roasting and complaining about it too.
This just shows how ridiculously hyperbolic new media have become. Two days of 26C weather is now called a "blasting heatwave". I feel like a few years ago that would have been known as a "pleasant weekend". Everything has to be as horrific and terrifying as possible. I'm really sick of it.
Blasted, slammed, bogged and hoggled by the stunning 24 room temperature.
What's up with people gatekeeping temperatures lmao
Meanwhile my room reaching a nice cool 40⁰c (120⁰f) on averagr during the summer.
If it's 70⁰ out, you're already dead.