The Heatwave Topic 2019 | The Struggle is Real

The humidity is triggering my asthma every five minutes and I'm lying on the couch feeling rough as strawberry float.

Jenuall wrote:

Qikz wrote:

Jenuall wrote:Really sunny but much cooler outside here today. It's still very nice but I'm kind of missing the heat from yesterday, it's not often we get to experience it over here

If you like the heat that much go live in a hotter country and take the heat with you.

Because I like lots of other things about the UK, including the varied climate we experience.

Liking the heat is not incompatible with liking other things too!

Maybe all the 'why does summer have to happen' people should go live somewhere more consistently cold. I hear the arctic circle is pretty good at this time of year, about 9 degrees and raining in Tromsø right now, for example.

Just looked up Iceland- 11C and raining in Reykjavik right now. Must be nice.

I'd love to move somewhere that has, at the very least, consistently cold, snowy winters. Unfortunately (for me) my favourite country for that kind of weather also has horribly hot, humid summers.

Come on Snowball Earth, save us all!

Corazon de Leon wrote:The humidity is triggering my asthma every five minutes and I'm lying on the couch feeling rough as strawberry float.

The hay fever has been horrible. Perfect conditions for grass pollen.

I'm on 3 tablets a day.

Red wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Qikz wrote:

Jenuall wrote:Really sunny but much cooler outside here today. It's still very nice but I'm kind of missing the heat from yesterday, it's not often we get to experience it over here

If you like the heat that much go live in a hotter country and take the heat with you.

Because I like lots of other things about the UK, including the varied climate we experience.

Liking the heat is not incompatible with liking other things too!

Maybe all the 'why does summer have to happen' people should go live somewhere more consistently cold. I hear the arctic circle is pretty good at this time of year, about 9 degrees and raining in Tromsø right now, for example.

At least there is the option of getting air conditioning to stay cold insider when the weather is nice outside. Those of us who like being outdoors* are knackered for at least 3 months of the year.


*Just to get in there first, yes you can wrap up in the winter but we don't merely want to exist outside, we want to feel alive.

Red wrote:Maybe all the 'why does summer have to happen' people should go live somewhere more consistently cold. I hear the arctic circle is pretty good at this time of year, about 9 degrees and raining in Tromsø right now, for example.

The arctic circle hit 45 degrees C the other day. It was the hottest the arctic circle had been in recorded history.

Memento Mori wrote:Just looked up Iceland- 11C and raining in Reykjavik right now. Must be nice.

Iceland? More like slightly-cool and raining land, am I right?

Dual wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:The humidity is triggering my asthma every five minutes and I'm lying on the couch feeling rough as strawberry float.

The hay fever has been horrible. Perfect conditions for grass pollen.

I'm on 3 tablets a day.

Got a Beconase nasal spray and its quality, It replaced the need for the antihistamine tablets I used to take.

Outrunner wrote:I'd love to move somewhere that has, at the very least, consistently cold, snowy winters. Unfortunately (for me) my favourite country for that kind of weather also has horribly hot, humid summers.

Germany?

They have lovely snowy winters, but when i went once in July, holy crap it was hot!

Hime wrote:At least there is the option of getting air conditioning to stay cold insider when the weather is nice outside. Those of us who like being outdoors* are knackered for at least 3 months of the year.


*Just to get in there first, yes you can wrap up in the winter but we don't merely want to exist outside, we want to feel alive.

We have the same problem flipped around. I don't want to just exist inside, I'd like to be out hiking or seeing friends. I'm screwed for 3 months of the year too. It's unfortunate that my closest friend hates winter as much as I hate summer, we really only have the spring and autumn to enjoy walks together

Vermilion wrote:

Outrunner wrote:I'd love to move somewhere that has, at the very least, consistently cold, snowy winters. Unfortunately (for me) my favourite country for that kind of weather also has horribly hot, humid summers.

Germany?

They have lovely snowy winters, but when i went once in July, holy crap it was hot!

Japan. I've done every season but summer and from everything I've heard it will kill me. It's going to be fun studying over there in a few years time

Outrunner wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

Outrunner wrote:I'd love to move somewhere that has, at the very least, consistently cold, snowy winters. Unfortunately (for me) my favourite country for that kind of weather also has horribly hot, humid summers.

Germany?

They have lovely snowy winters, but when i went once in July, holy crap it was hot!

Japan. I've done every season but summer and from everything I've heard it will kill me. It's going to be fun studying over there in a few years time

Ah right, Germany and Japan do have one other thing in common too, those weird electronic toilets with all the random buttons in public convieniences.

Japan is brutally humid in the summer. Like walking outside into a sauna.

Outrunner wrote:

Hime wrote:At least there is the option of getting air conditioning to stay cold insider when the weather is nice outside. Those of us who like being outdoors* are knackered for at least 3 months of the year.


*Just to get in there first, yes you can wrap up in the winter but we don't merely want to exist outside, we want to feel alive.

We have the same problem flipped around. I don't want to just exist inside, I'd like to be out hiking or seeing friends. I'm screwed for 3 months of the year too. It's unfortunate that my closest friend hates winter as much as I hate summer, we really only have the spring and autumn to enjoy walks together

But you could do that in summer, obviously I could sit outside and eat in the drizzling rain but it's not really the same.

If so could I'd definitely move somewhere with nicer weather all year round. California is my idea of perfect as far as weather goes. You're or a short drive away from mountains with snow for skiing/snowboarding or beaches/nice outdoor places for sun.

I'm getting a holiday home in the northern Scottish mountains where I can retreat to during summer. After all, how hot could it possibly be up there?

On second thoughts, that might be a bad idea.

DarkRula wrote:I'm getting a holiday home in the northern Scottish mountains where I can retreat to during summer. After all, how hot could it possibly be up there?

On second thoughts, that might be a bad idea.

In seriousness whenever we have these heatwaves I always look at the temperature in Scotland and wish I could retreat there

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:

DarkRula wrote:I'm getting a holiday home in the northern Scottish mountains where I can retreat to during summer. After all, how hot could it possibly be up there?

On second thoughts, that might be a bad idea.

In seriousness whenever we have these heatwaves I always look at the temperature in Scotland and wish I could retreat there

One problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_midge

What The strawberry float is this rain doing here?