I remember arriving in London, after Africa, and being totally knocked out by the close mugginess of the heat. So, now, I’m not so dismissive of reports of heatwaves there. But I’m figuring those muggy conditions don’t apply everywhere.
So send in your weather reports. Current temp, high/low, humidity and feels like.
Down here in bayside Melbourne it is currently 13 celsius, forecast top of 14, feels like 12 with humidity 78% and showers forecast.
Not just UK of course. I hear it is a tad on the warm side in most of Europe
It’s a pleasant sunny winter day here in Auckland. 14C I think – just right for me.
I moved here twenty-odd years ago. Although the temperatures can soar to the 30s in Jan/Feb I maintain that London is hotter in the summer. Auckland usually has a redeeming sea breeze to make life more pleasant. And even on the days when it doesn’t, many houses and shops tend to have some form of AC. The opposite is true in winter, though. Even in the chilly South Island – Central heating? Radiators? Double glazing? What are these things of which you speak?
I maintain that a scorching summer day in London is “hotter” than in Auckland.
It’s a fairly typical July day today but yesterday was exceptionally hot. Reached 32 degrees in Manchester, very muggy and didn’t dip below 23 at night. I don’t remember it being that hot before – but I remember being hotter and more uncomfortable – pre-internet we didn’t have weather conditions constantly updated on our phones – and I was only a wee tot in the summer of 76 when those sort of temperatures were common for several weeks (there would be utter hysteria and panic in the UK if that happened now in our super-connected hyped up world).
Hysteria and panic, indeed
Unless it was just that I was out in the sticks of West Wales, I don’t think it was so humid in Summer ’76. Except in the last week of the heatwave, when it was obvious that massive thunderstorms and a downpour were on their way.
In August 2003 we had the highest ever UK recorded temperature and I remember it well. I was working on the fitting out of a new multi-storey office building by Canary Wharf and we’d heard on the radio that the record for highest temperature had been broken that day.
Where we were, about 10 floors up, the aircon was working and it was pleasantly cool. At lunchtime we went down in the lift to get to the canteen facilities, which were on a ship moored in the dock outside. When the door was opened to the dockside it was like being punched in the chest by a hot fist. Like all the air being squeezed out of your lungs.
Here in Singapore it’s currently 29degC (with an expected high of 32degC) and a humidity of about 80%. Probably some rain / thunderstorms at some point in the day.
i.e. same as pretty much every day of the year.
I’m en vacances in Hyères in the south of France. Temps have been consistently around 31/32 all week. Being by the sea it’s quite pleasant though. When I younger I couldn’t take the heat but now my old bones seem to crave it.
Here in Baku it’s early 20’s when I get up rising to early to mid 30s, and staying like that for most of the summer. Always windy which takes the edge off it a bit thankfully!
*Googles where is Baku*
Gets answer.
WTF
Presumably the Baku beyond…..
Oh now you’re just goading me to post this.
Good, innit, as is the later Talitha McKenzie solo?
Yes it can feel very like “WTF” here some of the time!
Baku? Gesundheit!
Just me then 🙂
It reached 32 degrees (with high humidity) in my flat on Thursday evening 🙁
My sister in law was born and raised near the equator, and has returned to live in her native Kenya. She can’t cope with hot London summers.
The weather page for yesterdays Afteonbladet said it all! The weather is scorchio all over Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZMUAd7OJc8
I work a short bike ride from the hottest place in the UK, Cambridge’s Botanical Gardens.
My work PC has been struggling all week, even with the cover off and a desk fan blowing on it. On Thursday it lasted 5 mins before crashing. I couldn’t do any work, so I now have the tidiest desk in the office. It was 38 point something in the shade and 39.5C outside my car. Going outside really was was like walking into an oven, in a way I’ve not known since stepping off a plane in Cairns 20 years ago. My Crohn’s meds make me UV hypersensitive so I’ve been dashing between areas of shade.
This morning it is 19C, still very humid, and about to start raining.
What ? Your computers wear shorts and socks with sandals too ?
Has it adjusted to a cool northern clime?
Cooled off a bit now with the rain here on the east coast, but still very humid sitting-around-in-your-pants weather.
When you say pants …….?
Undercrackers. Bloomers. Shreddies.
If this doesn’t entice Moose back, I don’t know what will.
Once he calms down sufficiently and stops shaking.
Cooler but still humid today on the South Coast. I was in That London at a gig in a pub on Thursday where the Extra Cold Guiness wasn’t .
In Ottawa it will be 31C today, was 35 last weekend “feeling like” 43. Been lovely most of the week though around 27-28 and humidity not too bad. Don’t like to complain about heat too much (and most people have AC), will probably be snowing in a couple of months 🙁
Mrs Fish recently hit menopause so for the past couple of months I’ve slept on Venus….
The planet…..not the Godess of love.
That’s right out.
Arthur Cowslip here reporting from Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland. Summer so far has been unbearably humid and muggy. Looks like it has tailed off a bit this morning, though, it rained during the night, so there’s a bit of freshness in the air. BBC says temperature today should be only 17C, so that’s a bit of a relief.
Define muggy. Humidity level ?
The humidity meter in my music room said 67 yesterday. The instructions that came with it says +/- 10%. It was 24 degrees yesterday (sunny/cloudy) with thunderstorms in the evening.
Central Scotland.
Hmm, not very high by standards of other places. Presumably humidity is very low?
Current temperature 18ºC. Wind 13mph. Pressure 1006.0mb. Visibility 6.2 miles. Humidity 94%. Dew Point 17º.
Cloudy with a slight breeze, feels like 17ºC here, just NW of That London. It rained quite heavily in the early hours about 3am. The temperature is expected to rise to just 19ºC this afternoon before falling to 13ºC overnight. 90% likelihood of rain showers.
On Thursday it was already 25ºC at 9am, which is when I ventured out to the supermarket for essential supplies. The temperature rose to 38ºC in the afternoon and despite a fan running all day and night the sweat was pouring out of me pretty much as fast as the cool drinks were being poured in. Friday was a bit cooler but it was still unpleasantly sticky.
Whatever the weather, I always find it unpleasantly sticky*
You people need cooling down
(*born out-of-time comedy writer yearns for the early 70s)
Raining in Lichfield, nice breeze, mustn’t grumble.
Hot? It’s pissing down with rain here in the North West of England with temperatures in the teens.
Any excuse for posting this:
Also chucking it down here on the Leicestershire-Rutland border.
Does this mean the heatwave is over?
It is for the UK. Forecast is for cool rain all next week.
August is often really wet in UK (remembers Cornish camping trip with a sigh). Hope it’s nice there end of month and early Sept for purely selfish reasons…
The Triffids came from Western Australia where it really does get unspeakably hot and for extended periods. This song title conveys exactly how you feel when it gets so fuckin’ hot.
Too Hot To Move, Too Hot to Think.
I’ve enjoyed the lovely weather all week. It has veered between pleasantly warm and sunny [mid 20’s] and too hot & sticky [low 30’s]
Today [Saturday] is wet and mild, more like the English summer I expect to endure.
Definitely not good weather for treating the outside of my shed – so it’s a good job I’ve got the inside to do 🙂
Only 29 (81) degrees now in sunny Stockholm, feels like 82, humidity 54%. Tomorrow it will go up to 87 according to the weather app. But on Tuesday it will start to go down to more normal temperatures, in the low to mid 20s, and probably some rain.
At work (a grocery store) it’s at least 35 degrees in the office and storage areas, and in some parts of the shop as well (no AC). When it gets unbearable I can however walk into the refrigerated storage room in the back of the dairy section to cool off. On the flip side; to keep the refrigerators and freezers working I have to defrost them every other hour and pour buckets of crushed ice and water on top of the outdoor cooling fan which is standing in the blazing sun and stalls when it gets overheated, in turn shutting down a few of the refrigerators when that happens.
So my own humidity at work is around 89%, I’d estimate, from the way my clothes are clinging to my skin and my damp hair…
At home and outside, no problem. I used to really mind the heat when I was younger, but it doesn’t bother me too much anymore.
Are they crap refrigerators? Remarkably, we have refrigerators at grocery stores and I don’t recall this being required in summer.
Your grocery stores probably have AC and are built like big barns with high ceilings. The one I work in is small, built in ancient times, used to house five tiny shops that has been converted into one – it’s like a labyrinth with lots of walls that can’t be knocked down – and the ventilation is crap in that old building. So when the weather’s hot, the hot air get stuck in certain areas of the shop and the heat builds up. That makes any refrigerators in those hot pockets have to work harder to keep the temperature.
I take my straw hat off to you, Lo. Enduring the tropical Swedish temperatures to ensure that the good burghers of Vasastaden will not go hungry.
Here to cool you all down, is a pic of the place we visited yesterday on the north coast of Oland.
A very pleasant sea breeze and a rather desolate beauty. I was expecting the Tardid to materialise at any moment and an army of Cybermen to emerge from the waves.
More torrents here today than on a pirate bay.
I was refereeing a few weeks ago on artificial.
Ambient was 98 degrees; on-field got to about 135, with a high humidity factor. My mate in the Aussie Army was on the point of arguing we should shut down. He – and the Army – have a device that tells you your work to rest ratio in the conditions, and we were far exceeding what they would expect the army to do.
yep that’s feckin hot.
16C today yet so humid I was sweating lugging the vinyl playback system into the café this afternoon.