Does this heat keep you awake?

whirlpool

I know it's only 11 degrees [according to a simple Google search for "Dublin weather"] but I honestly find it hard to adjust to fall asleep with this temperature increase. 11 degrees in the middle of the night is not normal for me! Anyone else finding it hard to sleep because of the temperature?

3rdDegree

I think this must be the coldest May in many years!

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

open the window boss.

i found it tough when i lived in the city during the summer though, noisy street cleaning machine would wake me up at 4am on the dot.

CommanderC

I thought it was just me. Im wide awake here :mad:

Ruudi_Mentari

My room is perfectly aligned to catch the northern breeze :cool: and avoid the morning sun :pac:

crazygeryy

heat! are you serious.
go to the doctor you have a fever.

Peregrine

I still think the nights are cold

1966

You're joking right??

hardCopy

Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »

My room is perfectly aligned to catch the northern breeze :cool: and avoid the morning sun :pac:

Do what he does OP, turn your room around

Weathering

It could easily be 11c on a winters night too. Perhaps it's the lack of darkness that is affecting your sleep. Your probably restless and thats making you feel warm. 11c is nothing ha

corktina

it's lack of sex keeping you awake....

ShadowHearth

I had a dreadful night. I got a heavy flu and misses decided to fire up fireplace, with coal too...

It was roasting and I barely got few hours of sleep. Wrecked at work at the moment.

bacon n eggs

Heat, WHERE? Frigging freezing here, hasn't even been 11 during the day.

Ruudi_Mentari

Is like 7c here :eek: it must be at least a sweltering 9c in sheltered spots.

doolox

I would find this temperature just right for me. When on holidays in warmer climes I find the early morning and late evening the best times of all. I have found that a lot of mediterranean people avoid the mid-day heat and are most active also in the early morning and late evening.

Work is a drag in these conditions and, If you can, start as early as you are allowed in order to get at least some hours in the early morning that are cool enough to work in.

inforfun

Heat? Where?

As long as the thermo in my car doesnt show double digits at 7 am when i leave home, i am more concerned about having to de-ice the car windows than being too warm.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

No I slept with my electric blanket on last night

efb

I found it warm at night lately. Sleep has been awful

1ZRed

whirlpool wrote: »

I know it's only 11 degrees [according to a simple Google search for "Dublin weather"] but I honestly find it hard to adjust to fall asleep with this temperature increase. 11 degrees in the middle of the night is not normal for me! Anyone else finding it hard to sleep because of the temperature?

Ffs it was only 11 degrees? I was nearly getting delirious from a heat stroke last night!

Thought it was at least 12 degrees like

Solair

Heat???

We still have the central heating on!
It's miserably cold for May!!

old_aussie

whirlpool wrote: »

I know it's only 11 degrees [according to a simple Google search for "Dublin weather"] but I honestly find it hard to adjust to fall asleep with this temperature increase. 11 degrees in the middle of the night is not normal for me! Anyone else finding it hard to sleep because of the temperature?

Chuckles to self

B0jangles

1. Get a hot water bottle.
2. Fill it with cold water.
3. Put in the bed.

Result: Nice cool feet and a good nights sleep.

anncoates

If you're female, it could be early menopause.

Sergeant

Could be a case of Sticky Ballsac Syndrome. Where your nutpurse clings to the inside of your leg. Excess humidity can make the condition unbearable.

--Kaiser--

I can only sleep when it's cold, I leave the window to my room open for a couple or hours before bed (or all night some times) and I have summer duvet which is only about 3 tog.

Some warm nights I think of sleeping outside though, all that coldness and fresh air, mmmmmm.
Interestingly, there was an explorer who traversed Australia, which took a long time of sleeping outdoors. When he got back he found he couldn't sleep indoors, on a bed, so spent the rest of his life sleeping on his lawn

kneemos

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

I can only sleep when it's cold, I leave the window to my room open for a couple or hours before bed (or all night some times) and I have summer duvet which is only about 3 tog.

Some warm nights I think of sleeping outside though, all that coldness and fresh air, mmmmmm.
Interestingly, there was an explorer who traversed Australia, which took a long time of sleeping outdoors. When he got back he found he couldn't sleep indoors, on a bed, so spent the rest of his life sleeping on his lawn

Handy when you get up for a slash.

NothingMan

Try sleeping when it's still 36 degrees at 3am. If you spoon your other half while you sleep you may never separate again!

I was roasting in bed last night too had to leave the duvet half off me for a while to try cool down.

Pumpkinseeds

I hate the humidity and with 2 of us sharing the bed its a nightmare. I'm a light sleeper anyway, which doesn't help. I usually leave the bedroom window open all day but it doesn't help with humidity. We get the sun on the back of the house in the afternoon/evening so its like a furnace.

I like having the window open at night but the external noise is a problem. Last week the young couple across the street decided to have a domestic in the back garden in the early hours of the morning. Be great if people showed a bit of self-respect and kept the shouting matches for indoors:)

fleet

You do realise OP that water FREEZES at 0 degrees, right?

Ireland is a cold, wet, rock in the middle of the North Atlantic.

What must you do when you go on holidays somewhere less Baltic? Even London is a few degrees warmer year round...

Pumpkinseeds

fleet wrote: »

You do realise OP that water FREEZES at 0 degrees, right?

Ireland is a cold, wet, rock in the middle of the North Atlantic.

What must you do when you go on holidays somewhere less Baltic? Even London is a few degrees warmer year round...

The problem is the humidity. Hotter climates tend to have a dry heat that's more comfortable to cope with but Ireland has a muggy humidity that just makes it unpleasant to deal with.

juicyduckie

So glad I'm not the only one, thought I was going crazy.

My flatmate put the heating on on Tuesday night for an hour - thought I was gonna melt!

Think the sun in the window every morning is heating up the room, I can't open my window - it's far too noisy where I live...

*le sigh*

Mr Benevolent

whirlpool wrote: »

I know it's only 11 degrees [according to a simple Google search for "Dublin weather"] but I honestly find it hard to adjust to fall asleep with this temperature increase. 11 degrees in the middle of the night is not normal for me! Anyone else finding it hard to sleep because of the temperature?

WTF? Do you sleep in a meat fridge? That said, I woke up sweating last night.

Ush1

Isn't the general human comfort temperature 21 degrees?

The Backwards Man

I'm just after cutting a half acre of grass with a push lawnmower and I'm still foundered.

Honey-ec

Ush1 wrote: »

Isn't the general human comfort temperature 21 degrees?

Between about 19 and 21, yeah.

Irish people can't operate outside a median temperature range of about 8 - 16C.

Below 8 - Oh my God, it's like, arctic.

Above 16 - Jesus, I can't cope, it's a heatwave. Open all the windows.

It's all just dramatics.

--Kaiser--

Honey-ec wrote: »

Between about 19 and 21, yeah.

Irish people can't operate outside a median temperature range of about 8 - 16C.

Below 8 - Oh my God, it's like, arctic.

Above 16 - Jesus, I can't cope, it's a heatwave. Open all the windows.

It's all just dramatics.

Reminds me of a bit from Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Bolded the relevant bit but included the whole paragraph because it's brilliant)

His auntie was nice. She walked from side to side. She said God the cold or God the heat, depending on what the weather was like. When she walked across the kitchen she went Tea tea tea tea tea. When she heard the Angelus at six o’clock she’d go into the television and all the way she’d be saying The News the News the News the News. She had big veins like roots curling up the side and the back of her legs. She made biscuits, huge big slabs; they were gorgeous, even when they were stale.