Shouldn’t this be the other way around? This totally rocks!! My sympathy to the Brits. I would say “now you know how we feel,” but almost everyone here has AC. It only reached 79 on Saturday, the night was awesome. Tonight also felt oh so cool!
We have been getting some mean thunderstorms during the day. Loud, electrical light shows. Even some reports of hail, though I have seen none. A tree across the street from my folks house got fried. At least none of their appliances got fried, or hail damage to their house this time. Something about the Meyerland and Fondren Southwest neighborhoods in Houston.
But at night it has been clear. Awesome skating or any kind of outside exercise weather. I still sweat, but I haven’t been getting dripping soaked. Nor have I jonesed large quantities of water.
That is way too hot for the UK. I consider myself to be very lucky to be in Oklahoma at the moment - air conditioning!!
I’m an American living in London, spending the summer in OK with my dad, and I’m ever so glad. I’ve spoken to my flatmate, he says it is awful in England and is threatening to go visit his parents in Holland (they have air con).
I’m quite worried about my cats (one is 14yrs, one is 8yrs), they aren’t enjoying the weather at all, I’ve heard. I’ve told the flatmate to make sure they have lots of water, and to leave the small fan running for them. I live in a basement flat there, with windows only on one side, so no cross ventilation.
We’re only getting up to about 90 in Tulsa, it feels great. Actually going to open the windows tonight as it should be about 65-70 overnight.
I feel sorry for all the Brits - for one, they aren’t used to this weather, and second, there are so few places to get away from the heat.
I’m actually glad to leave the house and go to work in this weather, as the office I work in has AC. Being the first in I get to set it to ‘arctic’ to recover from another muggy sleepless night
Seriously, this is not funny anymore. We have had temperatures between 35 and 40° C for 3 weeks now. Nobody here has air condition in their home, and a lot of offices don’t have A/C either, including mine.
I live in a top floor appartment. The temperature in my living room is currently around 29° C. My cats and dog are lying around the appartment in various states of coma. I keep taking lukewarm showers and have 2 fans running when I’m at home.
In my office I can’t do anything about the heat. My arms keep sticking to the desk.
Make it stop!!! If I had wanted to live in a hot country, I would not live in Germany!!!
It NORMALLY gets that hot in south Texas, and I only recently got my air conditioner replaced. The damn thing has been dying off and on for two years now, and call me a whiner if you like, but it’s HELLISH to have to sit and stew in your own damn juices for the days it takes to get a repairman out here.
I can’t imagine what it must be like to live in a place that’s this damn hot where NO ONE seems to have AC… where you can’t even go to the MOVIES to enjoy THEIR AC… or the public LIBRARY or something…
Sorry we stole your weather, its very lovely. Right now it about 85 degrees with a nice breeze.
In Houston we have a word for people who don’t have AC. Dead. Now you know why we waste so much energy in Texas. Seriously I sympathize with you guys. Last summer, I was living in apartment with no AC, and man did it suck. It was at least a 100 every day. Once or twice it got up to like 106 or 107. I just hung out in my boxers all day with a wet wash cloth.
Houstong may have had a cool streak, but Dallas is still pretty hot…though not this morning. Last week was all 110F and up. It was like a friggin’ blast furnace outside! And an oven inside as I refuse to cool an empty house.
Call me a “git” (what is that, btw?), but buck up and walk it off!
Well, considering we spent the entire month of July without A/C (we did finagle a window unit from those miserable, ass-dragging SOB’s at the repair place), I understand. Since I work nights, I was not only trying to sleep without central air, I was trying to do it during the hottest part of the day.
I don’t know that I’d call it hellish, but it certainly wasn’t fun.
