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May. 25th, 2026 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](/post-https-www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
galadhirooh it's so hot! It's so hot. Too hot
35°C (95°F) today. Too hot for me, but I still managed to walk around the boat show and look at a number of narrowboats. (With the aid of sunscreen, a linen dress, a big hat, an umbrella used as a parasol, several liters of water to drink and another liter to pour over my head so I had wet hair and damp clothes.)
Then I came home and huddled in front of a swamp cooler for several hours before I slowly stopped feeling feverish.
Now it's 22°C and all the doors & windows are open as we attempt to cool the inside of the house down. It's getting dark and I must water the garden.
35° is expected tomorrow as well, so it's not happening tomorrow. (And by 'it' I mean 'anything.') I am planning a day of huddling by a swamp cooler until it finally goes away.
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Date: 2026-05-26 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-05-26 08:23 am (UTC)I actually have no idea because I never check the humidity... Oh my weather app says it's about 55% at the moment. I don't know whether that counts as high or low :)
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Date: 2026-05-26 08:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-05-26 09:14 am (UTC)I think today will be a day to set up camp in a supermarket freezer isle. At least tomorrow is supposed to be cooler :)
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Date: 2026-05-26 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-05-26 08:24 am (UTC)Thank you! Where is my nice deep cave I can go and hide in?
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Date: 2026-05-26 07:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-05-26 08:27 am (UTC)I hope this counts as the one week we have of this in the year. Or at least that we get a nice long break in the 23s until the next one! Hugs to a fellow sufferer :)
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Date: 2026-05-26 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-05-26 02:34 pm (UTC)Sadly air conditioning for houses here is not a thing, although perhaps it will become so in the future. I would like there to be some government action to help people who have no cooling at home, but our best bet atm is to go to the Library. (I think the Library is air conditioned, but it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't.) Perhaps someone will have to organize some sit-ins at the Supermarket freezer isle, or lots of people will have to die before the government does something.
Anyway, that's a problem for the future. I don't envy you your long periods of heat, but I'm looking forward to ours going down by 10° by the end of the week :)
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Date: 2026-05-28 05:08 am (UTC)I hope that heat scoots out soon, and that you can stay cool!
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Date: 2026-05-28 08:27 am (UTC)It's noticeably ramping up every year. Five years ago we never got to 30, and now we've had three days at 35 or more before summer has even started. I'm amazed at the speed of the change. (This contributed to our decision to finally put in windows with better insulation!)
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Date: 2026-06-03 04:23 am (UTC)Watching temperatures change has been really disconcerting over the last five or ten years. We've always had hot summers and all, but basically every year has started coming with distressing numbers of all-time heat records.
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Date: 2026-06-04 10:33 am (UTC)It's hard to understand why nobody seems to be preparing for it to continue to get worse. I mean I'm sure home owners are insulating and putting up reflective film on their windows and whatnot, but what is the government doing? Where are our new reservoirs? Our heat shelters for when people can't stay in their houses? Our drought-adapted infrastructure? What is even the point of having a government at this stage?
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Date: 2026-06-13 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-13 08:55 pm (UTC)I keep meaning to dig a hole in the garden and line it with gravel on the grounds that it would collect any rain that fell on my sloped garden and make sure it drained into the soil rather than just rolling down the slope, but I don't do this because I'm not sure if there's something complicated I should be doing to make it work properly. (On the model of how people in Africa dig hollows around sapling trees to keep them watered.) And we have water butts on every side of the roof, but it's barely enough to keep the garden alive. We're going to be a desert too before long, I think.
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Date: 2026-06-20 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-21 08:21 pm (UTC)I really don't know how there can possibly be climate change deniers any more, but I guess the power of wishful thinking is strong!
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Date: 2026-06-26 04:27 am (UTC)