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David T
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Posted: 9th Aug 2003 20:40
Wow. This is hot. Unless you either a) don't live in the UK or b) have been living up a welsh mountain then you may have heard that the UK is experiencing a heatwave : and possibly the hotest temperatures ever recoreded.

My thermometer (probably isn't accurate) read 102f / ~37c in the shade outside - the record is 99f. How hot has it been near you?
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d'oh spelling mistake in topic title

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Posted: 9th Aug 2003 20:42
Yep im feeling it David - and its rare up North, as it is anywhere in the UK.

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Posted: 9th Aug 2003 20:46
Stop comaining, you are having highs of 35degs, with lows at 20. Highs are in the cities .

I Just spent 2 weeks with lows @ 34 and highs of at least 42 (the hottest temp in the resort according to the town thermometer)

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Posted: 9th Aug 2003 20:48
Ive spent some of today in a paddling pool in the back garden.

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Posted: 9th Aug 2003 20:57
37 degrees centigrades is a nice temperature for a heat wave! Here in Rio de Janeiro the temperature can get to 41 or something!

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Posted: 9th Aug 2003 21:19
its bloody hot i can tell you that lol.

record = 37.1 degreees celcius
today = 35
couple of days ago = > 36 < 37

they say that tomorrow we could break the record if it stays warm tonight, but its also going to be thundering and lightning.

at the moment all i feel like doing is sleeping

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Posted: 9th Aug 2003 21:24
Up in Newcastle it's too hot to do anything but drink, I have probably sweated more than I have drank aswell!

My thermometer = can't be bothered to get one.

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Posted: 9th Aug 2003 21:35
Yep its bloody hot, i live in cheltenham, the town that holds the record for the highest temp ever recorded, i can't find a thermometer either.

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Posted: 9th Aug 2003 21:43
i have three

one has gone off the record (maximum of 30)
one in my bedroom (says 28, thats WITH my fan on and windows open lol)
one in my garden (shaded, says ~30)

and its 6:45 lol, at 12 it was alot warmer.

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Posted: 9th Aug 2003 22:12 Edited at: 9th Aug 2003 22:13
Last night it was 25.2 in my room, and that's when the sun was down.

Plus, I'm up north too (North West to be precise) and its really hot. Its cooling down, though.

I managed to measure 116f / 45c in the sun.

I've just cooled off by making some nice homemade lemonade....

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Posted: 9th Aug 2003 22:33
im from hull, it must have broke a record here by now, its always cold here lol.

ohwell, im a winter sort of guy myself,
its easier to get warm when its cold than to get cold when its warm (in this country anyway)

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 00:10
Roll on Autumn. Too hot to do anything. Been laying down most of day watching rubbish TV like pop idol and lame academy. Drunk more diet coke than can surely be good for you.

Been working all week in a small office where windows can not be open, has 10 servers running in it and the air conditioner broke down. It was a nice cool 33 deg C on Friday in the office!



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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 00:21
lol, at work we have two small windows, and 18 athlon 2k's running in the room im in lol. Bearly enough space for everyone.

anyway, i watch pop idol too lol. i probably wouldnt of done if it didnt have simon cowell in it...

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 02:55 Edited at: 10th Aug 2003 02:55
I hate hot weather, I'm sticking to the chair, the mouse feels like I'm using a stick of butter because it feels so sticky and slimy.
And dispite having all the windows open and having a fan on, it's 80 degrees here at 11:55 pm.

...Won't be getting much sleep tonight

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 13:26
Well its broken here thunderstorm and now cloud. At least that's the end of 26c nights! Roll on sleep!

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 13:39
melbourne is usually cold buyt we have hetwaves in teh form of like 45 celcius. and we bear it, this is the city of fluctuating weather.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 14:18
role on winter!

i dream of those days, with the minus temperatures, or at least thats when i end up getting to sleep

there is only one thing i hate about winter, and that is ice.
there are so many things i hate about summer. a big hate is all those annoying blue bottles and stuff that end up getting in the house.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 15:56
You call that a heatwave?! THIS is a heatwave!

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 16:14
ah, i see you've played knifey heatwavey before.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 16:49
lol and now the news is saying your running out of beer !!!!

god help us all if the poms run dry

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 16:53
Ummm. Ok.

Anyhows, take a trip to Dubai about now. Was there for a few months for work a few years ago. I grew up in Italy, so I'm no stranger to high heat. But Dubai is bloody ballistic. Was there for around 3 months and it never rained (thought it did, but that was liquid concrete falling from one of the buildings). One day a friend of mine forgot to put his sunshade on his car window. The dashboard melted! Melted!!!!! Damn....

Heh, also like high heat tarmac. For years I thought US films added that sqeeky noise when going around corners in chase scenes (I've tried in UK in my Scooby , and it's quite hard at low speeds without leaving rubber ). Nope, is the tarmac they use. Found that too in Dubai. Doesn't melt in high heat, but squeeky like a bugger. Fun. Although ours does melt every five years or so when things get a bit hot.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 16:53
Somebody get Mr Burn's sun blocking machine, the heat is too much

...I'm melting...MELTING...(gurgles)...ARRRGH!...(ends up as a puddle of goo on the floor)

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 17:00
Hmmm. Anyhows, what are you doing outside???? There is football on the TV!!! It's been a while.....

Get in the car, put the AC on, and drive around a bit. Come back ice cold and watch the footie.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 17:01
Before anyone mentions it, I was outside with my laptop about an hour ago. Benefits of sorted wireless connections

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 17:06
come to north queensland if you have the means, then you will know pain. Its not just heat its the humidity here that will drain you of any common sense. WE call it the silly season where people just flip out and go loco . Imagine stepping out of the shower which was dead cold,only to find out when u thought you were dry in fact your sweaty as a pig again in a matter of mere moments.

Christmas here is a heatwave so santa leaves boogey boards and beach gear. To listen to storys of santa coming down a "Chimney" let alone all that snow is just foreign to this sunburnt monkey. Im in sydney now but Im moving home to the heat, god bless air con.

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ahh good old queensland, beautiful one day, tropical rain storm the next. (ok you'd have to be australian or know about the quote queensland uses as its tourism slogan to get that one fully.)

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Yeah, had trouble working out the 100+ humidity in Dubai. Was normally around 50 degrees for a while, and 100andsomething humidity. And the locals (ish. the real locals live in immense rich places, but lots of Indian immigrants) wear vests under their shirts!!!! Apparently is good for soaking up sweat. Yuck. Used to like stepping out of the appartment (ACed of course) with totally wet hair and drying in like the 10secs it took to fall into the car. Then sweating like a pig, and drying out again in five mins. And the cycle continued...

Actually, due to the combination of extreme low crime rate (apparently is only behind Vatican City), extreme low petrol pricces, and extreme heat, the government actually advised to leave your car running with AC on when you had to quickly get something (from a shop for example). Class. If you turned off the engine and kept the AC going then the battery would be dead in 2 mins. But at a cost of around £5 ($8?) at the time to fill up an average sized car from empty, plus 50 degree heat, and everybody dying with the heat, then it made sense.

Heh, one thing that surpised me was the lack of insect noises. Expected something out of Tarzan. Cheep cheep etc. Tis nothing. Mainly because nothing can surive in the summer. Sizzle. Heh, at the time everyone (inc. my Dad who worked in S.Africa for a few years) pursuaded me to take a jacket as it is freezing in desert in the night. Took my big leather jacket with me and was wearing it when we landed at around 1am. Was bloody 38 degrees. Gits.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 17:37
We went to Yosemite a few weeks ago and that was hot. We were going to go to Las Vegas but it was so hot we went to the californian coast instead

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 19:22
have you heard the defeaning sound of a good cluster of cicadas.?

I kid you not they can be louder than a tv a car etc..

Its sounds like a high pitch water sprayer you may have in your councils gardens or at school, they slowly move around by the pressure of the water and a hinged peice swinging into the stream that knocks the pole around a bit more..

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Posted: 10th Aug 2003 22:38
Me used to worse climates than this, well after all I'm from Kenya.
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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 09:14
Your heatwave actually made the news, on TV, here in Texas.
It said something to the fact that, "Britian is getting a taste of Texas weather."

I saw that and was thinking of this post.

I then went and looked at the thermometer outside...
It was 91^F, at 8pm, in the shade, as the sun was setting.
It gets in the 100's every day here in August.

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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 11:16
You Brits are weak. You get a 100 F degree day and the world is ending oh jeez. The upper midwest in the US goes from 100s and sometime 110s in the summer to -20 and -30 in the winter. Parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan they gay way worse whether than we do. Yee-gads.

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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 13:52 Edited at: 11th Aug 2003 13:53
lol, were just not used to it, thats all.

anyway, yesterday we broke the british record. it reached 101F 38C in Kent, it was on the news last night

(add: ive just realized that 101F isnt 38C, but thats what it said on the news anyway )

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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 20:37 Edited at: 11th Aug 2003 20:38
Um never said world was ending. For some it meant work was ending is all <cough! sneeze!!! choke!!! splutter!!!!>.

I'm with the "Hmmmm, nice weather! Pretty good for Blighty!" sort of crowd. Go anywhere not covered in ice and it gets pretty hot. On the other hand, sod that, personally around 30 degrees is about right for me. Means you can still do some needed DIY without giving up after 10 minutes and having a bevvy instead. Anything hotter and I just get too lazy. Too aclimatised to other places to boil away like some people though (friend of mine just bought an AC unit for gods sake!!!!).

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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 23:02 Edited at: 11th Aug 2003 23:02
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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 01:33
AC wonderland my friend. Tis nice. But nah, is seriously hard to program in heat. Much better to be colder when programming.

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104 degrees average, it got up to 108 at one point over a few days, now its a little below 102.

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I can't believe we're running out of beer here. It's rediculous. What am I gonna drink? And my mate came back from 2 months in south africa last week - said it was much hotter here. Harsh.

As for us being weak for complaining about the heat, well like Shock said we're just not used to it. We don't have air-con in our houses, which makes a big difference. I personally hate the heat. Don't mind the cold one bit ... you can always warm up. Dont mind the rain, cos it's only water, but I hate the heat, cos sometimes you just cant find a way to cool down.

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I was wondering how long it'd take before the rest of the world pissed on our little bonfire

We're not equipped to deal with this sorta heat. It's sad really - I'm just glad it's over. I wouldn't wish hot weather & bad hay fever on my worst enemy...

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Not equipped? Heat takes less equipment.

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We've got the equipment to stay warm! We just aint got the equipment to cool down. The only air-con you find in the UK is in shops and in more expensive cars. Nobody has air-con in their houses, no matter how plush your diggs is, cos it's just not need here usually. All I've got is a desk top fan and beer, and it looks like one of those is gonna run out pretty soon!

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doesn't anyone in england have A/C?

it just surprises me how all of you say that you can't do anything cause it's so hot. in this day and age.

then again probably most of the houses in england are so old they can't have A/C installed.

how about the normal wave here in pennsylvania? highs in the 90s and lows in the 70s! yes that's normal. 100f is a bit on the warm side but it's not a heat wave 110 in the shade is a heat wave.

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Would you pay for air conditioning you only use for a week every year? There are also a lot of houses where installing air conditioning would be pretty impractical and proberly impossible. Then because so few people have a/c in their houses it is proberly very expensive.
A majority of workplaces don't have a/c either.
It's only fairly recently that normal priced cars have started to have a/c here.

Also the heat just tends to appear with no warning. I think the day before the heatwave was in the low 20s and the next day low 30s which doesn't allow you to get used to it gradually.

It appears to be getting cooler now anyway, unfortunatly it appears to be getting more humid which proberly means rain when it gets a bit cooler.
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Why do you need a/c? Where I'm at, we usually get about one good string of low 100S in August. Highest it ever got was 114, and that was a weird stretch in the late 80s.

What's the trick?

We drink lots of fluids (water is a surprising thing).

Used to do roofing all day in that stuff, and I loved it (no better pain reliever than fumes from tar). It's all psychology. You guys just need some mental conditioning to it, and before long you'll be tap dancing in the 100s.

Granted, London is on the same parallel as Anchorage, Alaska, so maybe it is a big deal.

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Quote: "ok you'd have to be australian or know about the quote queensland uses as its tourism slogan to get that one fully."

"Where else but Queensland"?

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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 10:31
Don't need AC in England. Not for the number of days you actually need it. AC in work is nice though, as programming all day in front of a few puters can get a bit much without it. Obviously have it in cars.

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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 18:38 Edited at: 12th Aug 2003 18:44
Lol yeah its been quite hot here in France. The thing is, its impossible to sleep. Its 30°C at night and about 43°C in the shade in the day here.

EDIT: The other day it got to 47°C in the sun!!
(When the hell will this end?!?) )

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If you wanna keep cool i think you should keep you windows CLOSED!! In heat like this its bad to keep the windows open. Its also better if you have shutters..

You didn’t kick them, you just pushed them with your foot at a very high velocity!

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