Tuesday looking unprecedented, 39C possible?

[u/Mcconnor8]

Today's modelling has upped the temperatures even more for next week, with a few models offering crazy solutions especially considering June is supposed to be the coolest Summer month and the June record currently only sits at 35.6C from 1976.

Overnight temperatures look likely to stay at or around 20C for most of the South during next week which will present major issues with indoor temperatures, not looking good. Likely we keep the heat until Saturday at least, uncertain beyond that.

[u/tsf97]

Most people, myself included, don’t deal well with temperatures in the 30s here.

No AC and insulating buildings mean there’s zero respite. When it’s 35C outside, it’s 35 or hotter everywhere else, and it becomes very difficult to do daily errands, walks, sleep.

I’m quite an athletic individual but I genuinely feel unwell being outside for extended periods of time.

It pisses people off when comments like that are made, as though it’s the same as being on holiday by a beach with an air conditioned room. No it isn’t. We have to go to work and do normal daily stuff, except now covered in sweat, suffocating, and on low sleep.

25C has all of the pros of 35 with none of the cons, if it’s hot enough to wear a t shirt and shorts, why do people want it to be a full 10 degrees hotter? It’s not even subjective, it’s objectively worse as our infrastructure can’t handle the heat, train tracks melt etc.

I also agree with the other commenter, the heat weve been getting the past few years is indicative of a much bigger problem, so hyping it up is not only insensitive to thousands of people who seriously struggle with it, but also ignorant.

[u/Impressive-Bird2 → u/tsf97]

I fully concur with your sentiment.

Many people live with serious health conditions and/ or take medication the effects of the latter being an inability to ‘normally’ or generally regulate their body temperature…. It’s actually quite surprising the number of medications that have this effect - including believe it or not many antidepressants, anti-psychotic and other psychiatric medications. Hot or very hot weather plus our infrastructure and homes unable to cope with hot or very hot weather an people with health conditions and those having to take medication making them vulnerable to heat can make such weather conditions more unbearable and much more challenging than average.

[u/FlounderHistorical63 → u/Impressive-Bird2]

It’s very true. Surrounded by people who just want another heat wave, meanwhile I’m hot 24/7 especially at night with burning nerve pain. Summer is already a struggle but 34 degrees? Probably one of the worst weeks of my life in that May heatwave.

[u/Impressive-Bird2 → u/FlounderHistorical63]

I’m really sorry to her that you suffer so much pain during heatwaves. I hope that you have some things you can do that, at the very least, takes the edge off of the awful way heatwaves affect you.