Record Temps in Blighty
 

Must suck to have no air con! :D

Britain recorded its first ever temp above 100 today at Heathrow airport. I just stepped outside here in AZ and its around 105 at 12pm. Of course, I just stepped back into the 72 degree air conditioned house straight after:D

P.S. I'm on week 4 and still havent worn anything other than shorts:beer:

You're telling me! I'm in London and we're dying! Went to the cinema with my mum (hubby's taking a vacation with his folks in Boston)--lovely in there with the air conditioning. The usherette came up to us as we were sitting watching the end titles and asked if we were staying for the next showing. We felt like saying yes, just to stay cool! Boston is not as bad as this, I was there just a few days ago. It's our pets I feel sorry for, with their little fur coats!

yes it is steaming!!

My kids busted there paddling pool-but there doesnt seem to be any left in the shops!!!!!!!!!!! not even a water pistol or blaster to be seen.

Help!!

I am truly thankful I am on the American continent where air conditioning is everywhere. :D
Must be a nightmare to try and get to sleep in weather like that, fans or no fans.

Funny enough - my 4 year old is still up now (it killing me!) and the time is ..........12.25am.......... shes eating her 5th ice lolly!

Whenever I speak to people over there they cant help but point out how blistering the weather is. I feel this is ironic sitting in 78 degrees Pennsy with the rain pouring down today. In the middle of August.

112 here today according to the weather channel. :D

It's not as warm in NYC tonight, but plenty humid so I'm having a delicious dunkin donuts lemon ice coolada, sooooooo good.

The Flip Side of a Hot US Summer!
 

And there's probably a considerable number of Americans who can't afford to have or run air conditioning throughout the summer too...



NC Penguin

Not too bad up north, poured with rain this am, that killed off the heat for Sunday. Not looking forward to high heat in London Wednesday for the interview though lol.

As an aside, they showed the cricket from Worcester on Sat, the temp recorded at New Road ground was 43.3* C / 110* F so the unoffical temps have been even higher

I do not get you guys, people always moan about the cold and grey weather in the UK, Now it is 100F and people are still complaining.

Well, I have thin blood, I can't take it either too cold or too hot! Would suit me if it always stayed between 55 and 75!

hi temps
 

well here in yorkshire it unofficially read 106 outside! It wavered between 100 and 106 for most of Saturday. It was 84 after dark.
The bad thing is, not only is there no A/C but the humidity is in the high 80% range, so it is sweltering! Bring on the DRY heat of Texas!!

20 past midnight and I'm gonna go and sit in my air-conditioned car. Gawd bless car a/c.

Who'da thought it eh? Good old Blightly too hot to think.....

Don't forget that you can get a free sauna on the Tube. Just get on any train....:D

Re: hi temps
 

Hope Bedford is well away from Houston - we've just had a nice thunderstorm that cleared the air and cooled things down a bit, but we've still got over 90F and 83% humidity at 8.30pm! Mid afternoon its well over 110 and 95 according to our local weather station (ie - our back garden thermometer/hygrometer). The weather stations do a heat index of how it actually feels (combines I think temperature and humidity) and that has been well over 110 most of the last week. Not nice!

Dry heat in Texas:confused: I always thought it was sweatier than a fat mans crotch there when it warms up?

Without wanting to admit to getting too close to fat mens crotches, I'd pretty much say you'd hit the nail on the head there matey! At least darn sarf, anyway..

HERE HERE!

I never heard of dry heat in Dallas. Try Egypt!

Regards
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Scarlett

We're Brits. It's what we DO!

:D

Regards
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Scarlett

hot hot hot
 

If you dont think Dallas is dry, try Houston! or England for that matter! Ha! Yes Dallas and Houston are both in TX but are quite different in the humidity department. The humidity here makes Houston feel like the Sahara! I think some of these people 've never left their A/C living room!.

Fortunately its much cooler here this week, so there's not much point in comparing apples with oranges just now.

Re: hot hot hot
 

I spent my first 3+ decades in England. I never got wet walking out the door. Dallas is a jungle without the compensation of long dangly vegetation. We don't have a car so we don't have the a/c to cushion us. Going to the shop for a bag of spuds is like swimming through stew - hot stew! Roll on winter!

Regards
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Scarlett

Re: hot hot hot
 

You don't have a car in Dallas, my god how on earth do you get
around?

I tried walking to my local tom thumb, the other day and gave up
there was hardley any foot paths, and when I did find one, it was flooded by the sprinkler systems, so I gave up and went home, I guess I will have to be like the yanks and drive to the store just to get a loaf of bread

and to think everyone in the U.S is worried about obesity in kids....I wonder why??????

My first summer here in 2000, it was over 100 deg for 2months straight, lake levels dropped by 40 feet, this year has been pretty good, considering.

Re: hot hot hot
 

Slowly - and :mad: in the face!

It's killing me to be without wheels for the first time since forever but we're dirt poor till I get a job, after which we'll just be poor :D
Try carrying your sick kid through it, onto the Dart rail, off again and through mud with no pavements to the docs, where you have to take your shoes off and wash them in the restroom sink before they usher you into isolation cos your kid has a fever. Loaf o' bread? Nuthin' to it!Oh despite everything I'll take the heat over an English winter any day of the week :D

Regards
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Scarlett

"Try carrying your sick kid through it, onto the Dart rail, off again and through mud with no pavements to the docs"

you rode the Dart, blimey taking your life in your own hands there.

D= Driving
A= african americans
R= round
T= town

Quoted by a american citizen, not me.

My wife and I share a car, and its bloody hard work, the public transport system sucks, partically if you live in the suburbs.

Anyways, like you said, I much rather wear shorts 8 months of the year, I hate the cold.

Really. You didn't just type that up there, then?
Actually I find the DART itself pretty reliable. I've never felt I was taking my life in my hands apart from on the streets where the pavements suddenly run out on you and crossing the roads where mad drivers use their vehicles as weapons.

Also, I'm sure you'll be glad to know Dart is entirely unprejudiced. It really doesn't care whether you're American, English, Chinese, knock-kneed or bald. I know blind people who use it successfully and there are special arangements for those in wheelchairs. I'm told it will even carry rascists if they pay their $2.50 - not something I'm very happy about myself but then I don't make the rules!!!

Regards
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Scarlett

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Originally posted by Yosser
you rode the Dart, blimey taking your life in your own hands there.

D= Driving
A= african americans
R= round
T= town

Quoted by a american citizen, not me.

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Really. You didn't just type that up there, then?


It was just a little bit of humor...(well I found it funny).


Also, I'm sure you'll be glad to know Dart is entirely unprejudiced. It really doesn't care whether you're American, English, Chinese, knock-kneed or bald.


Well thats good, I am going through the hair folically challenge thing myself....you can all take the piss, I've heard all the good ones.....I blame it on my dad myself, and his dad before him.

Only bald people worry about being bald. Most women don't give a rip about it. The only time bald looks bad IMO is when people grow a clump of hair by the side of the bald patch and try to hide it. It ALWAYS shows. I don't think they let you on DART if you do that.

Regards
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SCarlett

I always try to wear a hat - keeps the combover in place, donchaknow...

Yeah I done the baseball cap for a bit, buts its way to hot in Texas for that all day, every day.

I have the #2 shaved all over look (except for the scalp where its a natural #0), I think I look like Vin Diesel, my missus and the kids laugh till they cry.

Actually that was exaggeration for comedic effect: I am currently sporting a luxuriant "pre-BMW Hugh Grant" floppy public school haircut to go with my floppy public-school accent.

Coincidentally though, people have told me that my haircut makes me look like Arthur Diesel, who works behind the Giro counter in the Post Office in Dawlish Warren. Small world, what?

Dawlish? the place with the black Swans? :D

LOL:D

funny enough, I've been to dawlish Warren, nice place.

People tell me my head looks like the back end of a badgers arse!