whether the weather...

[caddyman]

Unlike the generally received wisdom of our age, I actively dislike this weather. I haven’t really watched TV apart from Doctor Who or a couple of World Cup matches for some months¹, so I am merely surmising.

My assumption is that whenever the weather forecast comes up on telly, generally directly after the National and/or local news, some orange-faced dweeb on amphetamines will be waving a hand inaccurately at a back-projected map of the country or region and babbling happily about the “glorious weather” and the fact that temperatures will be at levels that will make lead sweat, while there is nothing but blue sky for at least 14 hours a day seven days a week. Between back-projected maps, there will be jolly photos of a lush and green countryside and playful pictures of people sautéing themselves on beaches. There may even be a ‘humorous’ picture of some fatty dropping a melting ice cream down their bib.

No matter that in reality, the countryside is soon to bake a rather orangy brown, news programmes are reporting the beginning of water restrictions and hose pipe bans and the NHS are warning people to stay indoors or suffer heat induced heart attacks, it’s ”glorious weather”. Well, it’s not. It’s at least ten degrees too warm – Britain is not supposed to be hotter than Malta or on a par with Crete.

I am fed up with being unable to sleep at night because I’m too hot and the noise of the fan is annoying me. I am fed up with feeling clammy and sweaty every waking hour. If I wanted these temperatures, I’d elect to live in the tropics, thank you very much!

And even the average desert gets cool at night.




¹We do get through shed loads of DVD viewing, though!

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Don't start me off. When not just the proles but actual met people can say that the temperatures won't be great and then say 'only about 21' weather idiocy has gone too far. Even worse when they say that it'll be 'really great fro Glastonbuty - 30' ! Yes because 30 degree temps are just want drunk people stading in firleds for hours on end need, that'll no way lead to St Johns Ambulance people being run ragged or even people dying.

People at work regularly claim that the weather is only hot if over 80, that the summer is over if (regardless of actual temperature) you don't have completely cloudless sky and blazing sun everyday from June the 1st to Sepetember and tell me that they still have heating on in May.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't like Southern California then, Bry. To say it's going to be a sticky 105 every day until October is not much of an exaggeration. And it's one of those desert climates in which it doesn't cool down much at night, until the early hours.

I'm glad we live 6000 feet up: 15 to 20 degrees cooler and much less humidity.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I could manage the mountains temperatures and humidity, though!

As far as I can tell, everywhere in North America below about 5,000 feet is too humid to tolerate!

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

California is one of the less humid areas in the summer, and it's still grotty. I can only imagine how horrible it is along the Bible Belt.

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

Try my hot tip to cool down: Run a cold bath before bedtime, and soak in it for 15 minutes. Transfer excess body heat to cold bath. Remove self from bath, dry, before going to bed!