anyone else done with summer 2022?

[harryk]

Aug 26, 2022 18:53:55 GMT -8 Inkjet said:

I just came back from 2 weeks in London on Tuesday. When I first arrived, you guys were in a heat wave where it didn’t really climb past 85-90*F. I found it odd that everyone was freaking out and I kept hearing announcements to drink plenty of water. I had just come from vacation in Texas where it was 110*F just about every day out there.

I couldn’t quite figure out what the big deal was until later in our trip when it really cooled down to what I was told were typical summer temps. Then it made sense. As hot as it was when we first arrived, I felt right at home.

But I love the heat and summer, and especially the early part of fall when we get our Indian summer. 😃

It did climb to >104°F in the UK. Anything above 80 is near melting point for me and most Irish people.

[🎶Sossity🎶]

Aug 26, 2022 18:53:55 GMT -8 Inkjet said:

I just came back from 2 weeks in London on Tuesday. When I first arrived, you guys were in a heat wave where it didn’t really climb past 85-90*F. I found it odd that everyone was freaking out and I kept hearing announcements to drink plenty of water. I had just come from vacation in Texas where it was 110*F just about every day out there.

I couldn’t quite figure out what the big deal was until later in our trip when it really cooled down to what I was told were typical summer temps. Then it made sense. As hot as it was when we first arrived, I felt right at home.

But I love the heat and summer, and especially the early part of fall when we get our Indian summer. 😃

Yep! You figured it correctly as the why there was such an uproar.😀
Don’t think we’ve ever hit those Texan temperatures here in the Uk in recent times. We got to the highest of 40.3c (104.5F) in July. Temperatures as hot as those  are typically expected in the U.K. once every 100 to 300 years, according to records. Because of that, infrastructure in the U.K. — from homes to commercial buildings to roads to train tracks to airport tarmacs — isn't always built to withstand the high temperatures. Nor is the average (born and bred) Brits’ body. Then, there are cases like mine, where people from tropical climes have become acclimatised to the cooler UK weather after several years. I have friends and relatives from Jamaica who complain about the heat there, when they get back to the UK.😀
We’re slowly getting better at dealing with hot weather here. At least nowadays air conditioning is getting to be more common place. Not that long ago, the cry here was that air conditioning was too expensive for a country which doesn’t have many hot days. Can’t say that anymore.
Am I done with summer? No. Despite my ‘acclimatised to British weather’ body, Summer makes me feel happier than any other season, though I’m ok in Norway in winter for a short while.🌝
* Btw…apart from hot weather, the UK doesn’t cope well with winter either, especially if there’s more than a teaspoon of snow. Seriously!

[BEAST]

I do enjoy the heat and come alive when the sun is beating like this. Managed to set my fastest 40km times three months in a row on my Enduro MTB, with the last one a week ago being 25m 10s quicker than last.

A few countries I've visited have hit as high as 45C with that hitting the danger zone imo and far too easy to ignore the warnings of dehydration.

[Shady]

This summer has been mad in the UK, with extended high temps and those 2 days when it was 40C+. I know it’s nothing to other countries, but we’re just not set up for it here. No aircon where I work or at home so it wasn’t comfortable. I’ve been in the same temperature in Malta before and every building has aircon and you can just jump in your hotel pool.

In an ideal world we’d now have a really long Autumn, where it’s cool enough that we don’t have to spend electricity on fans and warm enough that we don’t have to spend gas on heating. It’ll be a tough winter for anyone trying to pay energy bills in the UK.

[📚 Dianne 📚]

Well, I'm from the USA. New England specifically, and we've been in a drought. The hottest it has been was about 103F. Lately, we've been being hammered with near equal temps and humidity. That's nasty and unusual for this part of the country. Even though it is still August and still summer, my trees are dropping their leaves like it was October and the middle of Autumn. I know it's a defensive move on their part, but I am so tired of this. Of course, I don't want the floods that the rest of the country is getting.

Of course, I still listen to the weatherpeople *bad Dianne, very bad girl* and their predictions that are never correct for us. *sigh*

Maybe we will have a snowy winter to make up for this, but I doubt it.

[harryk]

Aug 29, 2022 2:50:20 GMT -8 Shady said:

This summer has been mad in the UK, with extended high temps and those 2 days when it was 40C+. I know it’s nothing to other countries, but we’re just not set up for it here. No aircon where I work or at home so it wasn’t comfortable. I’ve been in the same temperature in Malta before and every building has aircon and you can just jump in your hotel pool.

In an ideal world we’d now have a really long Autumn, where it’s cool enough that we don’t have to spend electricity on fans and warm enough that we don’t have to spend gas on heating. It’ll be a tough winter for anyone trying to pay energy bills in the UK.

I do all the online benefit and pension stuff for an elderly neighbour.

This winter he will get an extra £790 help towards heating bills plus £25 per week if the average temperature is below 0°C for that week. And £650 cost of living bonus (which is new this year). Quite a lot of that can be claimed by people at high risk or on low incomes. Then add the grants available to improve household energy efficiency (boiler replacement, insulation, double glazing etc).

There is nothing on offer to help cover the cost of fans or air conditioning during the summer in the UK, except to replace existing, inefficient AC units.

But yes, a long cool Autumn would be nice.

[Linette]

 YaaaaY it's finally starting to cool down, it's about time my drunk weatherman gave me some sobering information. 

26c today and last night was so cool I actually got to turn off the fan somewhere in the middle of the night.

Clouds out there right now and am loving it.