Today going to be a scorcher it 22c already, phew.
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Nearly 25C down here on the south coast. It'll drop a bit later when the sea breeze kicks in. But it's still going to be a scorcher. Tomorrow's supposed to be even hotter.
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You really are having some incredibly high temperatures!
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With precious little breeze and high humidity some people are really going to suffer. As for me and the OH we love it like this. Lunchtime it's the beer garden in the local for us and a barbecue in the late afternoon.
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You'd be very happy where I am. In my city evetyone does that in winter too, in fact I can hear the neighbours revving up for a barbecue now.
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26.5C peak and no sea breeze today. Just hot. Tomorrow's supposed to be even hotter.
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Nice now in the early evening here in Brighton. Too hot during the day so did a bit of work but good now. Just been in Brighton itself, so many people burning on the beach. I know I'm in the minority but I don't get sunbathing. Seems boring and uncomfortable to me.
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Seems I'm just along the coast from you in Worthing, hoxton. Nice now the heat as gone out of the day. I still like to get a tan but it's been too hot today, Still over 25C at the moment. Must have been brutal inland.
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Nice now in the early evening here in Brighton. Too hot during the day so did a bit of work but good now. Just been in Brighton itself, so many people burning on the beach. I know I'm in the minority but I don't get sunbathing. Seems boring and uncomfortable to me.
Agree and with Brighton's "beach" I don't blame you! Let others suffer the stones.
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25C at 7am this morning in the London nether regions, currently 32C.
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Down to 24 now but I've put the aircon on in our bedroom. It's already knocked 5 degrees off and it's only been on 20 minutes.
Tomorrow is supposed to be even hotter.
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Thanks for cheering me up Heero!
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Down to 24 now but I've put the aircon on in our bedroom.
Is that like a portable job Heero, or is installed in your house?
I've got a portable unit, but because of the hard water here, its got terrible lime scale on it and I'm a little worried about Legionnaires. So, might bleach it first.
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This is a portable unit with a full refrigeration setup: Compressor, condenser, radiator and fans. I vent the hot humid air up the chimney in the bedroom. Basically a fridge in reverse. Came from B&Q for about £150 a few years ago. Only use it for a couple of weeks in the summer but what price a good nights sleep when it's so hot?
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In my bedroom now and it's a mere 31C. Might make a trip to B&Q tomorrow...
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It's a WA-903 There's few up on ebay and gumtree. This one isn't mine, just an image from Google. It's quite large. Spec says cooling is 6,000 BTU (~2 KW) per hour and dehumidifying at 1 litre per hour.
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As soon as I turned the lights and computer on in my bedroom, the temperature went up a bit more, so enough was enough. I got on my hand and knees and scrapped the lime scale out of the bottom of my air con unit and put some anti bacterial stuff in it. As you can see by the picture, the temperature is dropping a bit gradually....:
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I'm stunned at the high temperatures you're suffering. They really are extreme. I remember a similar sort of heat wave in 1976. My father was in England at the time, in Tunbridge Wells when he sent me a telegram and told me he and my stepmother were absolutely flattened by the heat.
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I remember 76, that was a real scorcher, went on for weeks. All the rivers dried up and everything turned brown. Eventually the drought was so bad they put stand pipes in the streets and cut off domestic water supplies.
Then Dennis Howel was appointed as Minister of Drought in September. You can guess what happened then.
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I'm on the outskirts of London, so much so that we absolutely don't see ourselves or call ourselves Londoners.
Imagine what it must be like on a lower story flat surrounded by people in other flats in all directs in Central London.
The City and Westminster aka Central London, has always been 2-3C higher than whatever I get...
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