The heat, the drums, the flies...

[caddyman]

For over a fortnight the temperature in the study has failed to drop below 82°F (which it turns out, is 28°C - one of the few easily memorable conversions between feet & inches and metres). This does not please me and I went through a period of staring at the thermometer, willing the temperature to fall by the power of my mind. I do not take it too harshly that I failed; I only have a 15 watt brane after all.

As we ended the second week of this ludicrous heat, I decided that the thermometer must be broken, so to satisfy myself on the point, I hid it in the soda fridge we keep in the room.

When I removed it an hour later, it told me that the fridge was an acceptable 38°F and probably lower if I left it a while longer. So the thermometer is not broken. It real;lIS hotter than Hades in here - even with the fan going 14 to the dozen behind me.

Roll on Autumn.

(Cross Posted)

Comments

[irdm.livejournal.com]

The upstairs of my house seems to be generally warmer than the downstairs.

Curse you, loft insulation grants!

[mathcathy]

Where, in stark contrast, just a couple of hundred miles north, I was so cold last weekend that I nearly turned the heating back on!

[catpooka.livejournal.com]

Try freezing a big bottle of water and putting it in front of said fan, creates a kind of air-con cool flow of air!! :-)

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

Possibly moving the fridge might help - they generate a lot of heat.

[pauln.livejournal.com]

Good job your brane is only 15 watt. It's not adding to the heat output.

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

Why is it so hot in there?

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

It's been hot everywhere in the SE for weeks. Everything is wilting and melting, including the people. I imagine it's even hotter and muggier in London because it always is, but it's been pretty boiling here.

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

Really? Blimey! Can you send some of that weather this way? It's just wet here.

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

It was 2C in Tynedale the other week. Meanwhile, here it was 110F last weekend. The moral of the story seems to be that wherever I lived, it is uncomfortable weather. Presumably there are storms in Oxford and a 100-year drought in Clapham.