1 hour ago, martin-w said:

We'll be hitting 26 today, so could be worse. In the Midlands, UK, where I used to live, only 23.

If that’s air temp then it’s not too bad. A weak cold front has moved south overnight and currently it’s cloudy here and 22.5°C. Lounge windows and patio door open bringing the inside temp down nicely to 25°C.

The Met Office have issued a weather warning for Sunday & Monday with 35°C+ likely over a large area of England. Enjoy the cooler air whilst it lasts. 😁

One of the things that makes driving a race car unique is the working environment.  The highest temps I have personally raced in was 99F.  The tarmac temperature was 148F and inside the car was a cool 130F.  After about 40 minutes of racing the car could not even cool itself as it was hitting ~240 degrees so the answer from the crew was to run the heat inside the car to help dissipate a few degrees from the motor.  

You can imagine how "turn the heat on" went over with me in a 130 degree cockpit wearing my firesuit, race suit, gloves, boots, balaclava and helmet!  

Fingers crossed 4 weeks from now I will do the unimaginable and get back in a car just 5 months post-op...  Because who wouldn't want to get back to what I described above LOL 😉  Especially because it is always cool at the track Mid August LOL. 

Edited July 12, 20223 yr by psolk

One thing I can tell you is that here in the UK, it was very hot inside the hold of a a couple of B737s I was loading yesterday! Can't even remember how many cups of tea I chucked down my throat to keep hydrated yesterday!

30 minutes ago, Chock said:

One thing I can tell you is that here in the UK, it was very hot inside the hold of a a couple of B737s I was loading yesterday! Can't even remember how many cups of tea I chucked down my throat to keep hydrated yesterday!

As an American with family who lives in the Negev I never understood this until a Bedouin explained it to me over Naan sitting around the flames of an open fire in the middle of the desert...   All we know over here is Iced water.  Give us something cool to rehydrate.  Then I learned about how drinking warm fluids requires the body to do less work to equalize the temperature of what's coming in to your body temp.  Iced drinks have to actually be warmed up to our internal core temp first.  Hence you are hydrating quicker with warm tea than I am with ice water.  I'm not a "hot" fluid drinker, never have been but I have migrated from cold fluids to room temperature fluids.  

Stay hydrated and safe!  Once you realize you are a bit dehydrated it's already too late.   

3 minutes ago, psolk said:

As an American with family who lives in the Negev I never understood this until a Bedouin explained it to me over Naan sitting around the flames of an open fire in the middle of the desert...   All we know over here is Iced water.  Give us something cool to rehydrate.  Then I learned about how drinking warm fluids requires the body to do less work to equalize the temperature of what's coming in to your body temp.  Iced drinks have to actually be warmed up to our internal core temp first.  Hence you are hydrating quicker with warm tea than I am with ice water.  I'm not a "hot" fluid drinker, never have been but I have migrated from cold fluids to room temperature fluids.  

Stay hydrated and safe!  Once you realize you are a bit dehydrated it's already too late.   

Yup, the other thing drinking hot tea actually does in high temperatures, is make you sweat a bit more initially, so if you have any sort of breeze blowing, the air on your skin feels a lot cooler.

13 minutes ago, Chock said:

Yup, the other thing drinking hot tea actually does in high temperatures, is make you sweat a bit more initially, so if you have any sort of breeze blowing, the air on your skin feels a lot cooler.

Interesting tidbit, riding a motorcycle in the heat with full safety gear and leathers you will end up with a dripping wet shirt from sweat by the end of the ride.  Reverse that and put a soaking wet shirt on under your gear and you will finish with a dry shirt as your skin absorbs the moisture.  Things that make you go hmmm 🙂  

5 minutes ago, psolk said:

Interesting tidbit, riding a motorcycle in the heat with full safety gear and leathers you will end up with a dripping wet shirt from sweat by the end of the ride.  Reverse that and put a soaking wet shirt on under your gear and you will finish with a dry shirt as your skin absorbs the moisture.  Things that make you go hmmm 🙂  

Yup, being a motorcycle rider myself, it makes me cringe seeing people riding them in shorts and tee shirts and trainers in hot weather. If they come off the thing dressed like that, they'll be sorry, and it's not like the breeze doesn't cool you down anyway, even in full riding gear. A doctor once told me that at 30 miles per hour, on a typical tarmac surface, if you scrape along it wearing denim jeans having come of a motorbike, the jeans will typically burn through, exposing your skin, in less than four seconds.

Edited July 12, 20223 yr by Chock

1 hour ago, Chock said:

Yup, the other thing drinking hot tea actually does in high temperatures, is make you sweat a bit more initially, so if you have any sort of breeze blowing, the air on your skin feels a lot cooler.

 

That only applies if the air can pass across your skin Mr Chockster... sorry but you will have to be naked in the hold of your 737. 😏

Sweating is nature's air conditioning.  All you need is dry air to evaporate your sweat more quickly.  Wind helps but is not necessary.

In humid climates sweat collects on your body and you stay hot because it doesn't evaporate quickly.

You do sweat in Death Valley but it never shows up on your skin because the dry air evaporates it instantly.

In our park along the walking/bike path we have misters.  You can stand under them and mist collects on your exposed skin (as well as whatever you're wearing).  But when you step out you can feel the instant cooling effect of the dry air evaporating the mist droplets on your skin. 

The more exposed skin you present to the dry air the bigger the cooling effect which is why laborers remove their shirts when doing manual labor.

Noel

 

Well, here in southern Alabama at around 32 degs latitude we've had high temps ranging from 28 to 33C for the past couple weeks and forecast for the next few weeks, which is not too bad for this far south.

We're not too far from the Gulf of Mexico which has a moderating effect on the temperature, keeping it a bit cooler than further north where it has been hotter.

Humidity is high, though, at around 70-80%.

We do have occasional high temps of 35-37C in the Summer.  Thank goodness for air conditioning.

Dave

Edited July 12, 20223 yr by dave2013

16 minutes ago, dave2013 said:

Well, here in southern Alabama at around 32 degs latitude we've had high temps ranging from 28 to 33C for the past couple weeks and forecast for the next few weeks, which is not too bad for this far south.

What part of southern Alabama are you? (Mobile?, Baldwin?)  I'm in Baldwin Co and we've already hit 101 a week or two ago.

Edited July 12, 20223 yr by sightseer

7 minutes ago, sightseer said:

What part of southern Alabama are you? (Mobile?, Baldwin?)  I'm in Baldwin Co and we've already hit 101 a week or two ago.

North of Dothan.

Yeah, we had a heat wave in June where it hit 99-100F for a couple days, and 94-97 for a couple weeks.

Lately, though, it's been pretty nice.  The afternoon rains are also nice and cool things off.

It's hotter in Tennessee and Kentucky than here lately.

Dave

On 7/11/2022 at 8:29 AM, FreeBird(Josh) said:

If your in central Texas it will be Hot I live near the Space Center and its to be 101F today. I really feel for the people in England with no AC  time to get the fans out and try to stay cool.

107F in Horseshoe Bay yesterday. We're expecting 105 today. At least we aren't as humid as you. 

Bill W

6 hours ago, psolk said:

Then I learned about how drinking warm fluids requires the body to do less work to equalize the temperature of what's coming in to your body temp.

 

6 hours ago, Chock said:

Yup, the other thing drinking hot tea actually does in high temperatures, is make you sweat a bit more initially, so if you have any sort of breeze blowing, the air on your skin feels a lot cooler.

I heard some people in the Colombian coast (Barranquilla, Cartagena, etc.) said that the best thing you can drink if you feel too hot is a hot coffee (a tinto, as we call it in Colombia). Now, thanks to both of you, I can finally see the logic of this.

UK tempreture record likely next week they say.