07-17-2006, 12:32 PM | #41 |
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Can I come and live in your ice house? It looks heavenly.
It's been unbearable here today, the thermometer hasn't read below 303K. Spoiler:
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But to be honest it's built during the wintertime. Not even the north of Sweden has ice and snow in the summer.
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07-17-2006, 01:21 PM | #43 |
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I think I saw James Bond's invisible Aston Martin in one of those pics.
I must be mad. I spent all day working in the garden in 30 c heat. Scotland is going through a mini heatwave at the moment. Great I picked the right week to be off work.
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07-17-2006, 03:44 PM | #45 |
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We have one of those ice hotels here too in the winter (in Quebec, that is). Not much help right now though.
I'm trying to decide if it's better to keep the doors and windows open in a hope to get some sort of breeze in here, or to leave everything shut with the fans on to try and keep out the 41'C air. I'm not quite sure if it works like that though. Man, I wish I could afford some AC. |
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A cold front went by last night sparking off some t. storms. Now we have a northern breeze making things so much more bearable.
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07-18-2006, 12:39 PM | #48 |
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Ughhhhhhh this sucks somebody kill me. It's wicked hot here and I HATE IT! I have no AC, just a couple of fans that push warm air around.
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07-18-2006, 07:59 PM | #49 | |
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1. If you've got double-hung windows, open the top half on the side of the house/room/building away from the prevailing wind. This will help draw the hot air near the ceiling out of there. If there's no wind, putting a fan in the upper half of one window blowing outwards will have much the same effect. 2. Strip down to your skivvies. A heat wave is no time for modesty, and exposed skin is much more efficient for evaporative cooling. 3. Drink ice water, not drinks. The sugar and caffeine in most drinks will build up in your system and you'll be wired and unable to sleep...and still hot. The combination of these conditions makes for a grumpy SakSquash.
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07-18-2006, 08:09 PM | #50 |
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Mmm, I'm on here because I can't sleep. So hot. Here's some reassuring news I found while scouring Ceefax for weather updates, though!
Yes! I'm not going to get flooded out when I least expect it! In more relevant news, apparently this is likely to be the hottest day in the UK since records began. :~ |
07-18-2006, 08:19 PM | #51 |
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How hot is that?
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07-18-2006, 08:34 PM | #52 |
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Peanuts to you, I'm afraid - around the 100 degrees Fahrenheit mark. Still, it's not cool (urgh - I didn't even intend that) in a country entirely geared up for cold weather and rain.
Here are a few lollercoasting stories about how we can't cope with any adverse weather whatsoever. The roads are melting, it's too hot for air conditioning on trains and I think some of the railway tracks are buckling as well. It allegedly reached 47 degrees Celsius (116 Fahrenheit) on the London Underground on Monday. Basically we're just incompetent in any weather other than "light drizzle, slightly cloudy" (witness the country grinding to a halt if a millimetre of snow falls in winter), but hey. It's our "thing"! Last edited by Huz; 07-18-2006 at 08:41 PM. |
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The London area is supposed to be 36 c today.
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There's a heat wave across the US as well. It's nasty everywhere. A lot of people in the states have AC but not everyone. For those without (esp. in the UK), I'm so sorry.
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/extr...heat_guide.asp A cool bath will work wonders if you don't have AC. Last edited by Melanie68; 07-18-2006 at 09:16 PM. |
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07-19-2006, 12:45 AM | #56 |
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Ahhh, it's so nice and cool in the office today! I think I'll sleep here tonight.
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I just have to tell you:
I just got out from an hour in the sauna.
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07-19-2006, 09:08 AM | #60 |
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No, she's brilliant! After an hour in the sauna, the outside temperature will feel pleasantly cool.
What interesting synchronicity...I was just telling a friend how much I could go for a good schvitz right now.
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