too effing hot

I had rain for like 3 days in a row and got all wet while going home. This morning was 23 degrees. So much happiness for this i cant even begian to talk about it

Woooooo...!

Just like that.

Cheezuz christo, los angeles.

KILL ME NOW

i was in encino friday -- at 113º i went swimming in an 87º pool to cool off and ended up with all sorts of weird breathing trubbles.

my wading pool is too hot to even bother... i take cold showers every hour and stand in front of a fan

do not want

I got pretty used to it being in the 110-115º F range, but now it's in the high 80s/late 90s. If it were 5-10º cooler, I would adore it, but as it stands it just feels like the weather is TEASING me. "It could be Fall, but....naw. Haha."

fuck this shit

I think this shit is supposed to be fucked tomorrow.

THANK GOD

I can't be bothered to check, but I don't think it got to 100 all summer. Which is just bizarre in these parts.

uhhhhh
bleah

Amsterdam was nice, and then I came back home to schvitzville.

Starting to get hot.
the front passenger-side window of my car asploded in the car park on Friday, it was so fucking weird.

..And it was almost definitely the heat as there was no projectile in or around the car and a co-worker was nearby it when it happened.

Glass was everywhere :((

Oh nice. I just posted this to the Chicago thread. This is my local El station

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/405057393_01c7c543d7.jpg

I cannot wait.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/405057398_2a5c4820e9_b.jpg

BITE YER TONGUE.

It's October 1, 10:53 PM and it's still 70 degrees. And tomorrow's high is forecasted to be 80. I am ANGRY and I want searing, skin-shattering cold. I have since summer began. I even wanted it in February when we had weeks of record lows.

Bring it on.

Think of those of us who MIGHT DIE.

?

As my father always used to say, "You can always put on more layers in winter." (In summer you can only get so naked and still be miserable.)

Believe me, anyone I encounter in the dead soupy heat of summer has their lives in danger.

I'm really skinny, anemic, and have poor circulation. Winter is just 4 months of shivering for me. I live in Chicago because I hate myself, obv.

But I suppose I'm glad that some people enjoy the Time of Sad.

Ppl complaining about today being too hot here already. In Melbourne. In SPRING. The hell?

I'm lovin it.

But then again it isnt blindingly hot.

I complain about too hot when the snow starts to melt. Not being contrary for its own sake, but summer makes me cranky, miserable, and depressed. I stay inside next to the A/C that is cranked to the coldest setting.

Like so many people in Chicago I have radiators with a mind of their own, so even when it's 10 degrees outside, I open the windows and let the wind in.

Not being contrary for its own sake, but summer makes me cranky, miserable, and depressed.

Get rid of "depressed" and I echo your feelings. I anticipate the first snowstom of winter with much glee.
And fall is my favorite.

Fall is wonderful. Though I don't appreciate how summer is encroaching on it. But in its purest form it is delightful--cool, sometimes sunny, sometimes drizzly, and the smells are the best.

it should not be 86 degrees f right now, here

Tracer when did you move here? The last week in July / first week in August 2003 was one of the worst heatwaves ever ever experienced. Could not find a single fucking fan anywhere. I resorted to literal ice baths and sleeping on the kitchen tiles. It was hellish.

https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/weather/case-studies/heatwave

God it was bad. I remember being on the central line in a khaki skirt and the sweat was pouring down my legs. I couldn't sit down because I would have looked like I'd wet myself.

10 degree drop tomorrow we need this. The sheets were damp this morning!

one of our shops at work hasnt had working aircon for the last 3 months. was in there for 30 mins yesterday and it was horrible. theyve had to take all the chocolate out cos it was melting and now have removed sandwiches because the chillers cant cope with the general shopfloor temperature. feel sorry for my coworkers who have to do 8 hr shifts in there.
got up at 4.30am this morning to play golf so that i was finished by 7.00am. wasnt too bad.

went bike riding in the heath around here and it looked like the plains of sub saharan africa

did you see any gazelles

Lol Jordan

My flowers are fried.:(

I still enjoy heatwaves even tho they are becoming more frequent/worse here, if I looked at the 10-day forecast now and it was more 30° and sunny my immediate response would basically be “hurrah it’s summer” (and yet I am pleased that irl it’s gonna break & we get rain tomorrow)

I am lucky enough to work in labs that have to be air conditioned but I do have to use public transport which is unbearable in the heat and my flat is an absolute sweatbox, it’s worse in here than outside. Can’t imagine how bad it is for ppl on the upper floors

The AC unit in this place where I'm cat-sitting just can't keep up, idk what else to do, I ran it constantly over the weekend and the apt barely got bearable. I know for a fact they don't have enough electrical power because you can't run any two appliances at the same time so maybe that's it, but I have been constantly slightly too hot since Friday, punctuated only by my multiple cold showers per day.

Relief in London, at last. Whippet nose cold for the first time in a week, light rain very welcome!

still enjoy heatwaves even tho they are becoming more frequent/worse here, if I looked at the 10-day forecast now and it was more 30° and sunny my immediate response would basically be “hurrah it’s summer”

same, it can be uncomfortable but when the sun is shining it's hard for to feel happy about it, for me.

not to*

Last night was pretty awful even with the fan. Even with windows open it takes a long time for the heat to escape in my flat (double-glazing on the south-facing windows). Fantastic difference outside tho.

my extremely fur-covered dog was absolutely gagging to go for a lunchtime walk today after a few days of exhausted flopping by him and everyone else in the house, he knew things were Normal again

Takes a bit of deconditioning as someone from Ireland living in the UK for half my life to actually accept that you don't need any covers for sleeping, unless I'm on holiday or whatever.

Still definitely very muggy today.

I may have to take on the task of putting ac in the window = why does this intimdate me

"A 10-year-old American girl collapsed and died while visiting the Palace of Versailles south-west of Paris , reports said."

jesus christ!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyg5pq584eo

My yard guy just told me that a local plumber was found dead of heatstroke in his truck last week.

eff this

Summer will increasingly be winter like. Just shut in, no lunchtime walks.

I don't massively care but I can think it will be hard for many, many people.

^^^ at weekends I usually take a walk at 7/8 in the morning, but this weekend I'm staying indoors. Later this morning I realised that I had to run an errand I'd been putting off, but after about twenty minutes of deliberation I decided against it. I don't have the option to work from home, so usually in the middle of summer there are a few days where hardly anyone else is on the bus. There's definitely some strategic use of WfH from people - everyone piling into work on Wednesday/Thursday so they can WfH on Fridays.

I’ve been waking up at 05.30 on heatwave mornings, feeding Widget half an hour before the usual time, trying to be out for walks no later than 07.30, and getting the bulk of our exercise done before 10am. We stay inside after that until around 5pm (which may involve a siesta to make up for only sleeping five hours overnight). If I’m working, I tend to do the work early or later in the day.

Hilariously the coolers in the local Tesco have broken, so it's like going back to the early days of COVID. Today there was a choice between a handful of very expensive Charlie Bigham meals, or a Rustlers Cheeseburger, or a Rustlers Quarter Pounder, and nothing else. At least not in the chilled section. The people of Britain have temporarily spurned microwaveable cheeseburgers.

As I did my shopping I remember wondering if I could cool down by painting my whole body silver. However according to Google it wouldn't work, because paint doesn't reflect infrared very well. Also I would smell bad. Apparently there are special cooling paints designed specifically to reflect infrared, but they're surprisingly obscure and probably not great as body paint (judging by this article in the New Scientist).

You know what does reflect infrared? Plant leaves. Also, clothes. But plant leaves. It came to me that the optimal hot-weather outfit would be a giant pitcher plant, filled with water, worn with shoulder straps, like dungarees. Look at this woman with her pitcher plant. She looks so happy. If only we could all be as happy.

If there's one thing I've learned today, it's that no matter your race or skin colour, you will never be as cool in hot weather as a big leafy plant.

112F/44C where i am right now.
~3 hours from home where the high today was 58F/14C

One of those days in the South East of England where it might not be the hottest on a thermometer, and there isn't even much direct sunlight, but the humidity is so high that once you start sweating you don't stop until you take a shower or get in front of some serious AC.

I've just run a disco for 50 7-year-olds so you can imagine the levels of sweat going on in that room

You should run a disco for 7 50-year-olds and see if it's more or less sweaty. I'm 51 and if I was a betting person I'd put money on it being more, based on today's sweat-fest.

Seven 50yo women would hot-flash you all into next year.

crazed weatherman noting on tiktok that dewpoint height is the real mindkiller!

weirdly in ldn it's gonna be as muggy overnight as it was during the heatwave peak

After several days of swampy weather in the 90s, now it's a cool 70 here.

I know it's not the heat wave, just a hot day, but Paris really does not feel livable right now. Came into town an hour early for my train and ended up spending the hour slumped in a chair in the cafeteria of a mostly deserted covered market, discreetly splashing myself with water at intervals, because the train station felt like a greenhouse.

Thank you for reminding me to use my own spray bottle!

It was super windy here last night but unfortunately the air was still so hot it was a bit like a convection oven. If I sat very still and drank cold drinks I could feel the benefit of the blowing air cooling me off but it was still rough. Living the AC today and leaving for cooler lake-adjacent climates tomorrow!

i only pay attention to dew points now not the temperature. wonderful dew points yesterday and today despite temps in the 80s. looking like dew points will stay below 70 this week even though it might hit 90 by the weekend?

when the dew point is above 70 it's fucked, basically

today it’s fucked basically

US East coast has been suffering above 90 temps high humidity for a week. Allegedly massive storms today will usher in a nicer week to come.

the massive storms going to majorly flood NYC of course because we can't even handle normal storms any longer.

I know, the now-weekly 100 year storm

Brought my Tevas to work for wading through the ensuing floodwaters on my commute. o___O

The country of Japan reached their all-time highest recorded temperature yesterday.

At least it was in the right month?

Brought my Tevas to work for wading through the ensuing floodwaters on my commute. o___O

Lol, we just rode the train up from DC today and our poor kid was sloshing around in her birkenstocks as we tried to get back to our hotel after a late lunch and shopping excursion, right before the real storms kicked off.

I feel like we brought the flood warnings with us from down south.

well, the heat finally broke here, and it's not raining either. we've had one or the other for a month.

now it's all wildfire smoke from canada! :/

The country of Japan reached their all-time highest recorded temperature yesterday.

― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Thursday, July 31, 2025 10:36 AM (five days ago)

that record (106F) didn't last long, it was broke (107F) just 5 days later

wow

oddly salt lake city has been relatively smoke-free this year, and we haven't had very many days over 100 compared to the last few years. it is quite dry but south of us is where it's really bad. our major fire has been the monroe canyon fire in the middle of utah. wild fire behavior on that one, it's been pretty much unstoppable for just about a month. something like 15% contained at this point.

i drove the highway that it just jumped about 3 weeks ago. at that time the fire was 30 miles to the southwest. people are talking about it getting up to fish lake - hope that doesn't happen (rip pando).