How are you coping with the hot snap?

Ubbquittious

Today was hot but tomorrow is supposed to be even hotter. So much so that there has been a warning has been issued by our benevolent overlords. No doubt the Daily Fail will be along shortly attributing a death toll to this hot snap.

Did you get burnt?

Have you checked on elderly relatives and neighbours to make sure they're drinking enough water?

Have you marked down today's date in the diary as being the summer for 2017 so future generations will know which day the summer was in this particular year?

Myself I am well prepared, even have a frozen hat and t-shirt draped over a mannequin inside in the freezer so I'll stay cool for the 10 minute walk to the shop tomorrow for me Lucozade orange & box of wedges with mustard.

Wibbs

By enjoying it.

Jim Bob Scratcher

Not bad, How longs it meant to last does anyone know ?

refusetolose

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Not bad, How longs it meant to last does anyone know ?

there's rain forecast for the southwest later i believe

DEFTLEFTHAND

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Not bad, How longs it meant to last does anyone know ?

Thinks it's supposed to break up Thursday.

Flibble

I am hiding in my home, lying down, with a fan upon me. I hate it. I've been arranging my days so I get stuff done early in the day & can just come home & work inside for the rest of the day.

I'm convinced I overdosed on heat at one point in my childhood (we lived in a v. hot country for a year) because I've detested it ever since. I vividly remember lying on a bed at the age of 8 literally wishing I could die as it was so hot.

RhubarbCrumble

refusetolose wrote: »

there's rain forecast for the southwest later i believe

It's just started here in Limerick :mad:

Armchair Andy

Just sparked up the barbie there. Shes going like the clappers

DEFTLEFTHAND

It's kind of a humid heat we tend to get up here, always found I take to the Med dry heat much easier. Of course everywhere is air conditioned down there also.

diomed

Travelling around on the bus with my top off.

Armchair Andy

diomed wrote:

Travelling around on the bus with my top off.

Flexin those guns? Ron Burgundy style.

I took the remote control for the air conditioner down from the holder on the wall and put it on my desk.

sjb25

Something along these lines

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zakdzo09E3s

Duff

Great apart from the swamp crotch.

Stevecw

2 sick days and will be back in Friday with a serious tan/burnt to death. Horrible side effects of a stomach bug tho.

The Backwards Man

It was a lot warmer here six weeks ago, I thought the days of us getting a day off school to go to the beach because there was a couple of snow flurries in Dublin were long gone.

LadyMacBeth_

I'll be having a cold shower for the next couple of days if anyone is looking for me.

Burial.

By sleeping on top of a pile of ice, with many beautiful ladies.

andekwarhola

It's a bit of fcuking sunny weather not the coming of the apocalypse.

sjb25

Burial. wrote: »

By sleeping on top of a pile of ice, with many beautiful ladies.

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Sherlof3

If anyone needs a bit of help sleeping I wrote a blog with a few tips (hope this is ok admins.)

Whispered

Really enjoyin the last two days. A trip to the beach yesterday with the toddler and today spent out the back with a paddling pool, big umbrella and loads of water.

Odelay

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

I'll be having a cold shower for the next couple of days if anyone is looking for me.

So where should I be looking for you while you're showering?

Odelay

Big tip is to leave curtains closed at home while at work, the house will be nice and cool when you return. Worth tying, there is a reason the Spanish do that.

LadyMacBeth_

Odelay wrote: »

So where should I be looking for you while you're showering?

I'm already in your shower, go and have a look

Virgil°

By suffering through the worst dose of hayfever i've ever known. Blasting sunshine and heatwave can go take a running jump as far as i'm concerned. :mad: I'd pay to see some rain.

Irishweather

What Hot Snap?

Malari

Getting cheap thrills from leaving the house the last two evenings without a jacket or cardigan. That's living on the edge in Ireland.

LadyMacBeth_

Irishweather wrote: »

What Hot Snap?

You're quite oblivious to the weather considering your username :P

Odelay

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

I'm already in your shower, go and have a look

I'll bring up the ice cubes young lady.x

Ubbquittious

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Myself I am well prepared, even have a frozen hat and t-shirt draped over a mannequin inside in the freezer

So we're just ignoring the fact that this guy has a mannequin in his freezer?

Cool.

LadyMacBeth_

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

So we're just ignoring the fact that this guy has a mannequin in his freezer?

Cool.

Better a mannequin than a dead body.

Alun

Harry Palmr

I'm working outside in it! Yesterday was about the 6th circle of hell, today wasn't that bad with the easterly breeze for most of the day but tomorrow is threatening to be the 9th level and I've decided to take it off (luckily I have some flexibility on days) and will enjoy a much cooler Thursday in the sun.

That said it could be worse, 26 here beats 34 in London.

LadyMacBeth_

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

Better a mannequin than a dead body.

Plot twist: it's his wife

Fr_Dougal

Suns out, bums out.

Agricola

If the stifling heat begins to annoy me, I think about those 8 months of the year when it's cold and dark for 23 hours a day. Then I feel better.

LadyMacBeth_

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Plot twist: it's his wife

Out, damned spot!

mad muffin

Rose Ting.

Junkyard Tom

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It was a lot warmer here six weeks ago, I thought the days of us getting a day off school to go to the beach because there was a couple of snow flurries in Dublin were long gone.

It's far from the Sun you were raised ya big mad Plutonian ya.

cute_cow

Sunshine and heat have been great, the weekend was glorious. It's the 4 buses a day to work and back that really kill me in any kind of heat.

Humidity is a different level, and am not able to deal with it at all, therefore am dreading tomorrow

But I welcome the sun and some of the heat!

Irish_rat

It's that kinda weather where you shower about 5 times and still feel icky and sweaty.

Like many I've sensitive skin so try to contain the amount of rays I get. Went for a hike at the weekend for 3 hours and out for an hr here and there for cutting grass, cleaning car etc.

Getting sunburnt is not worth it folks so throw on that factor 50.

lazybones32

The three and a half days we got were good. Cloudy now and a few raindrops falling...won't make much. Summer's over after tomorrow anyway. Time to order oil for winter.

One_Of_Shanks

Irish_rat wrote: »

Getting sunburnt is not worth it folks so throw on that factor 50.

Factor 50 ??? Jaysus, i wouldn't even need that for the tip of my............. nose.

I love the good weather. I adore sunshine. Or at least used to.
Twins aged 2 put an abrupt end to that enjoyment.
Went to the beach at the weekend and purposely picked a spot away from people.
Within 30 mins we were surrounded. A few teenage girls even sat right next to us with music blaring despite half the beach being empty.
But another 40 mins later after the kids decided to voice their disapproval to the intense heat and awful music, we had a 2 mile exclusion zone all around us.
Even the teenagers buggered off with their poxy music eventually after losing the audio war.
One slightly older fella was in such a hurry to escape that he forgot his flip-flops.
I felt bad for a second but then recalled that we had intentionally picked a secluded spot to start with.
Then I sort of found it funny how we had been left on our own again by everyone.
And lastly, I just felt sad that I couldn't go with them.

Mostly stuck in a stuffy office sweating buckets since then. Much better.