Thread: Unproductive at the moment

Originally Posted by jow104

Unproductive at the moment.

Owing to the heatwave we are suffering in the UK at the present time.

Up to 28C IN MAY.

What? At Midnight?

Meg said it was great

Careful your timber doesn't dry out and split John.

Originally Posted by jow104

Owing to the heatwave we are suffering in the UK at the present time.

Up to 28C IN MAY.

Heatwave??????? 28ºC ???????????

Since when was that a heatwave???????






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Made me laugh when I lived in the UK for 4 years. When the temperature gets above 20 degrees or so people are sweating like crazy and complaining about how they can't cope with the heat. Anything above mid 20's and the rail lines warp due to heat expansion and all the trains grind to a halt. It's a country not built for excessive heat....and yet, you can guarantee the roads are never salted for the first freeze of the year, so the country grinds to a halt when that happens as well!!!

Enjoy it for the few days a year it happens.

Tom

Now I can tell you about heatwaves!!
All you need to do is ask!

As an ex pom (came here 1962) I tended to laugh at British heat waves until I went back recently. I was in the centre of London and found the heat wave intolerable. Problem is temp gives only part of story. High humidity, as Qlders know, makes matters worse. It's why I don't live up north. British houses and clothing are not geared to heat. Not many air conditioners but a lot of rain coats.

Our last run of forties saw wife and me either indoors with the air conditioner or in the pool. Both remedies not available to the majority of Brits.

Jerry


War does not decide who is right. War only decides who is left.

Iye, very true, humidity plays a great part in how it feels. In Kansas, only a few hundred miles further inland, it is more of a dry heat. I noticed up there I had to be careful or I'd be outside boiling my brain without realizing it, it felt so much cooler than down here where I'm at. I could deal with that though.

Here it's much more humid and much of the summer is spent in the low to mid 40's, you get used to it but it's still not much fun. If you're not used to it then it's hard to breathe, you almost want to use a machete to cut a path for yourself, you moan and groan a lot and talk about moving back to where ever you are from.

If you work outside a lot though you feel great once all the sweating has cleaned some of the polutants out of you and your blood, the work tones up your muscles, you just get to feeling much better overall, and just learn to take a siesta in the afternoon when its hottest and most dangerous, and you adapt and adjust to it pretty quickly. You have to drink a lot of water though, last summer I was going through several gallons a day, it just sweats right out of you, soaked clothes are no fun come to think of it. I always feel the most alive when I'm working outside in the summer though.

US or english gallons? And where are you? Mid 40's is silly heat. I'm north of the tropic of capricorn and we usually only get mid 30's in summer. With the odd 38-40 day when there is a strong norwester.

Originally Posted by Matt88s

You have to drink a lot of water though, last summer I was going through several gallons a day

Did you ever get off the toilet?

Another two days of heatwave forecast and then it back to the low teens, normal

When you get 20 days straight above 40°c thats a heat wave and thats with high humidity.

Originally Posted by Gingermick

US or english gallons? And where are you? Mid 40's is silly heat. I'm north of the tropic of capricorn and we usually only get mid 30's in summer. With the odd 38-40 day when there is a strong norwester.

US. I'm in Oklahoma. I know mid 40's is silly heat.

We usually have 2-3 weeks in the middle where it's around 100-115F. Before and after it usually just in the upper 90's, and then spring going into summer 80's-low 90's. I blame Texas for all this.

Originally Posted by Metal Head

Did you ever get off the toilet?

lol, actually, it's mostly just replacing what you've sweated out, so you don't go to the toilet anymore than usual.