What Are Your Plans For This Heatwave?

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

Now that the anticipated heat wave has started what precautions will you be taking or will you just spend the duration of the heat wave down by the beach and soaking up the long awaited sun? With temperatures expected to reach between 28c to 30c Wednesday and Thursday i will be spending a lot of time indoors as i would find the heat too extreme.

RoYoBo

Looks like everyone else is outside already!

Foweva Awone

I don't like sunshine. Would ideally spend the next week inside with the curtains drawn watching Netflix; alas real life calls. Won't be spending any more time outside than strictly necessary though.

I may have been a vampire in a past life.

hairyslug

Just built a trampoline, gonna bounce for the next 48 hours

Skatedude

probably just turn up the aircon at home

SEPT 23 1989

Gallons of cider and canal swimming

Hande hoche!

Might wear a bucket hat.

corks finest

natashaob6 wrote: »

Now that the anticipated heat wave has started what precautions will you be taking or will you just spend the duration of the heat wave down by the beach and soaking up the long awaited sun? With temperatures expected to reach between 28c to 30c Wednesday and Thursday i will be spending a lot of time indoors as i would find the heat too extreme.

Hopefully watching cork beat Kerry

OldMrBrennan83

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Graces7

Life as usual here. Avoiding the hottest hours and being sensible about it. Nothing different here; watering the plants well...

Graces7

Patww79 wrote: »

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Maybe alter the song a little ! "Mad dogs and IRISH MEN go out in the midday sun.."

ah let them all enjoy the sun!

RobertKK

Sunscreen, keeping my fruit, veg and plants alive like myself with extra liquid, managing my water supply due to the well going dry.

RikkFlair

Top up the farmers tan.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

corks finest wrote: »

Hopefully watching cork beat Kerry

If your going enjoy.

clintondaly

I panic bought a BBQ,beer,wine,Ice cubes and a trampoline and went to Dunnes anxiously hoping there would be burger buns and lettuce
For the next few days I shall repeatedly say its hot and how Ireland is beautiful in this weather
Sometime towards next weekend I shall start saying when will we get a break from it, this will coincide with RTE reports with regards drought conditions and how the farmers aren't happy.
I expect on Monday to be getting aloe vera sun burn cream from the chemist and applying it to my arms which will be burnt up to my t-shirt mark.
All the cars that have Air con will be driven around with the windows down and people complaining as to how the Air conditioning isn't even keeping them cool.
Hose pipe bans will be introduced but ill ignore them to wash my car.
I'll toss and turn at night complaining that I can't sleep all the windows will be open during the night and i'll still complain there's not a breath of air there.
I'll stand in the ice cream cone queue that will be a common feature in most garages
I'll wear sunglasses that don't suit me and shorts that will match my Lidl sandals that I bought in November for just such a situation,I still haven't used the trumpet and chainsaw from that particular Lidl visit.
Then in roughly 7 to 8 days or so the rains will appear they will be welcomed with open arms and within an hour of this I will miss the heatwave that we just had,we will reminisce about it and compare it to our childhood summers and comment that they were hotter then.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

Plenty of sun cream and ice cream. You can't beat the aul 99.

Hitman3000

clintondaly wrote:

I panic bought a BBQ,beer,wine,Ice cubes and a trampoline and went to Dunnes anxiously hoping there would be burger buns and lettuce For the next few days I shall repeatedly say its hot and how Ireland is beautiful in this weather Sometime towards next weekend I shall start saying when will we get a break from it, this will coincide with RTE reports with regards drought conditions and how the farmers aren't happy. I expect on Monday to be getting aloe vera sun burn cream from the chemist and applying it to my arms which will be burnt up to my t-shirt mark. All the cars that have Air con will be driven around with the windows down and people complaining as to how the Air conditioning isn't even keeping them cool. Hose pipe bans will be introduced but ill ignore them to wash my car. I'll toss and turn at night complaining that I can't sleep all the windows will be open during the night and i'll still complain there's not a breath of air there. I'll stand in the ice cream cone queue that will be a common feature in most garages I'll wear sunglasses that don't suit me and shorts that will match my Lidl sandals that I bought in November for just such a situation,I still haven't used the trumpet and chainsaw from that particular Lidl visit. Then in roughly 7 to 8 days or so the rains will appear they will be welcomed with open arms and within an hour of this I will miss the heatwave that we just had,we will reminisce about it and compare it to our childhood summers and comment that they were hotter then.

Reads like the lyrics of a song.

Jimbob1977

Argos are selling electric fans in large quantities.

Nights will get muggy. Houses locked up all day will be like saunas.

A great time for beverage and ice cream manufacturers.

corner of hells

I shall be setting multiple gorse fires all round Howth , Dublin Mountains and any other area I feel needs a dose of arson.

Agent Coulson

Melt get sunburn drink to much and get massive headaches.

Purple Mountain

natashaob6 wrote: »

You can't beat the aul 99.

Ahh you can...
69

DellyBelly

I bought 3 fans today just in anticipation. I know in Europe in really hot conditions many old people die. I'd advise all people to check in on their elderly neighbours.

Gunmonkey

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Ahh you can...
69

Dont forget the Flake!

Graces7

corner of hells wrote: »

I shall be setting multiple gorse fires all round Howth , Dublin Mountains and any other area I feel needs a dose of arson.

Not something to joke about

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2018/0623/972692-forest-fire/

r93kaey5p2izun

I suffer from heat intolerance due to a medical condition. Hopefully I won't end up in hospital. Already needed treatment a few weeks ago and this is forecast to be worse. I'll be sitting in front of a fan with the curtains pulled. Thankfully I'm on holiday for the next couple of weeks.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Watering the garden, drinking plenty, taking early morning walks and generally making the most of it.

Ush1

I did a load of work in the garden, cleared the shed and gonna do more work tomorrow. Hopefully fit a BBQ in as well!

zapitastas

Will get a pair of tight shorts, like the English squad ones in Italia 90, lie out on a longer drinking beer and watch my belly getting redder and redder over the week

SEPT 23 1989

Hopefully the government will do the right thing and issue a red warning so we can enjoy the few days

naughtysmurf

Done a bit of weeding out the back this morning before it became to hot, after lunch stripped off, slapped on some P20 & enjoyed a couple of Cuba Libre, same tomorrow except for the weeding

EPAndlee

Avoid as much sun as possible also make sure the dog has plenty of shade

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Ahh you can...
69

A 69 and a 99 with a flake. You wouln'd need any heatwave to work up a sweat after those.

corner of hells

Graces7 wrote: »

Not something to joke about

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2018/0623/972692-forest-fire/

Ah LIGHTen up a bit.

clintondaly

Hitman3000 wrote: »

Reads like the lyrics of a song.

You write the music,I still have the trumpet from Lidl,we could make it all Jazzy

uck51js9zml2yt

I'm working:(

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

Isaias Scruffy Meteorologist wrote: »

I suffer from heat intolerance due to a medical condition. Hopefully I won't end up in hospital. Already needed treatment a few weeks ago and this is forecast to be worse. I'll be sitting in front of a fan with the curtains pulled. Thankfully I'm on holiday for the next couple of weeks.

All joking a side I do feel sorry for people who suffer from extreme heat conditions and I do hope they will get through this heatwave without any major health issues.

Graces7

QUOTE=corner of hells;107335858]Ah LIGHTen up a bit.[/QUOTE]


Very light thank you but some things are not for joking about.

bloodless_coup

Where is everyone? Around town is 50% populated than usual. I when for a drive to check out the talent, thin on the ground.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

doylefe wrote: »

Where is everyone? Around town is 50% populated than usual. I when for a drive to check out the talent, thin on the ground.

I'd say all the talent is at home bathing themselves in sun tan lotion.

Purple Mountain

doylefe wrote: »

Where is everyone? Around town is 50% populated than usual. I when for a drive to check out the talent, thin on the ground.

You're really showing your age!
The days of myself and the gal pals cruising through local villages hoping to catch a glimpse of some boys is like a memory from the famine.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Preparing to ignore all the "oh, it's very hot", "we need rain" etc. Usually from the same ones who complain that it's too cold, too wet or too windy.

s7ryf3925pivug

Thanks OP, didn't realise it would get that hot. Have a little baby who's on antibiotics right now, so glad to have opportunity to prepare. Reserved a portable air con unit to pick up tomorrow so won't be concerned about him getting too hot.

Dr. Bre

Walk around in the nip

sydthebeat

I'll be coming home from 34 degrees in Spain on Wednesday, so it will be just nice

AllForIt

I plan not to get sun burnt and enjoy the outdoors at the same time by mostly staying in the shade and talking only small doses of direct sunlight at at time, max 15 mins a number of times in the day with breaks inbetween. This strategy I used for the first time only this year during our last spell and it worked out very well. I didn't stay in the sun too long to get burnt but my skin certainly did benefit from the sun I got without ruining that benefit by getting burnt. Another benefit to doing this is one doesn't need to pile on all that horrible chemically sunscreen shtye. As the days progressed I found I could stay out in the direct sun a bit longer as the skin naturally builds up some immunity. Noting more dumb that staying out in the sun for hours and getting burnt (guilty).

corner of hells

AllForIt wrote: »

I plan not to get sun burnt and enjoy the outdoors at the same time by mostly staying in the shade and talking only small doses of direct sunlight at at time, max 15 mins a number of times in the day with breaks inbetween. This strategy I used for the first time only this year during our last spell and it worked out very well. I didn't stay in the sun too long to get burnt but my skin certainly did benefit from the sun I got without ruining that benefit by getting burnt. Another benefit to doing this is one doesn't need to pile on all that horrible chemically sunscreen shtye. As the days progressed I found I could stay out in the direct sun a bit longer as the skin naturally builds up some immunity. Noting more dumb that staying out in the sun for hours and getting burnt (guilty).

I've a friend not yet fifty , diagnosed with skin cancer.
He's just had surgery to remove a growth from his face.He looks like he's been shot in the forehead after the surgery.

Nothing more dumb than staying in the sun for hours... You're dead right.

AllForIt

corner of hells wrote: »

I've a friend not yet fifty , diagnosed with skin cancer.
He's just had surgery to remove a growth from his face.He looks like he's been shot in the forehead after the surgery.

Nothing more dumb than staying in the sun for hours... You're dead right.

Well I'm not sure skin cancer in Ireland is caused predominantly by sun exposure : ). I'm not sure if you friend lives in Ireland. It's not the only cause of course. But it is a major cause of it in Australia.

I think the problem in Ireland and the UK is that most ppl don't tan anyway and it's as if those ppl don't realise it and they think if they spend hours out in the sun they will get one. A tan of course is a skin reaction to protect itself from the sun - that's why ppl in Africa are black.

As far a what looks attractive is concerned, there is this idea that if one has a tan or are light brown that this is the most desired look. Not for me, noone looks more attractive to me than if they are fit and healthy even if they are phasty white. I find tanned ppl look a bit plasticy and unnatural.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I'll be honest here.

I work hard and train hard all week, my plans ~ train, load up on the Lidl's Parlenbacher and get fooking rat arsed.

Train Saturday (done a 5km Parkrun.ie this morning) and Sunday. Go to work feeling fooking chuffed with my efforts Monday.

And that's mu plan for the heatwave, get pished.

andekwarhola

Working unfortunately. Would like to take the week off if I could.

bloodless_coup

This thread is a real downer with all the "I have a condition" and cancer talk.

Harry Palmr

I've taken the duvet off!

As I work outside a big hat, factor 50, talc, regular breaks and lots of water will be the thing.