It made me invest in a standing air con unit so I appreciate it for that
The 2022 heatwave sucked. We had to abandon any outdoor work in the hospital and just find somewhere shaded and cool to hide. I got so fucking ill
I sat outside with iced coffee and covid for 5 mins and decided no.
6 months later, my mate still tried to claim it rained all summer ‘as usual’
The display in the dash of my VW faded so I could barely read any of the text.
It went back to normal after the temperature cooled down again.
I remember sanding and re-staining some wooden garden furniture during that. My phone overheated in my pocket and turned itself off for a few hours.
I’m a refrigeration engineer and borrowed a 3kW portable AC from work for a few weeks. Only worked to cool one bedroom but got way more popular suddenly 😂
I had a baby in May 2022, living in a flat with no aircon and floor to ceiling windows. I don’t know how we survived. No one wore clothes for weeks.
I worked at a festival in Milton Keynes bowl that summer, pretty much the first lot of work I had post Covid… I cried at one point.. 😭
I remember i was in basingstoke visiting relatives in that time and we were in a shitty, not very well cooled hotel room and i missed Scotland and i think i saw the devil
My firstborn was born in the peak of that in July 2022.
We were so worried from dehydration to a barely feeding newborn due to tongue tie.
We barely remember the heat tbh
I had to work outside at a music festival putting up and cleaning hundreds of tents (glamping). Oh and they didn’t install the tap water until 2 days in, so we had to drive to the nearest taps and mass fill up all our bottles.
You know what the inside of tents are like, imagine having to spend all your time in them when the outside temp was 38 degrees.
One of the customers during the festival weekend came up to me and threw a fit complaining that there was a spider in their tent. I wanted to turn them into quartiles
Those of us working trauma bonded that week.
There’s a reason the Spanish have a sleep in the afternoon.
We were driving from Leeds to Pembrokeshire. It was hell. Went to the beach before our campsite and just ran into the sea.
But by the time we reached the Welsh border we were stopping every hour to get inside and take on more fluids.
I was 7 months pregnant then, I remember it well…
My workplace had just installed air-con 1month before. I remember, despite it being a 12hr shift, getting into work early on the night shift just to get that sweet sweet AC both in the car and at work.
Was it hotter than Barcelona? I believe that’s the benchmark for UK weather forecasts
I was working doing interview ops, in an airconditioned events centre the hottest day. I remember arriving at 7.30am, it was already around 30c, was sweating like anything. Inside it was fine, but the poor people that came in for their interviews throughout the day was fucking dripping.
I went to Alton Towers on the hottest day of the year. I think it got to 40 degrees at one point.
It was almost unbearable but I’d pre booked the tickets without checking the forecast. Loads of people gave up and went home in the early afternoon and I went on the Smiler 4 times at the front. It was brilliant.
My Wife and I had the most brutal Covid infection during that heatwave.
It was…less than ideal.
I was working in front of a 400° pizza oven for 12 hours that day. We were taking turns to cool off in the walk-in. Good times.
I know my dog hated it more than I did. And, I suspect, the huge floof ball of a dog near me who spends most of his time outside probably hated it even more.
We had to call football matches off on player welfare and tinderbox pitch grounds
My local council decided to dump a full moving box worth of dog shit outside my living room window and refused to collect it until it had baked, been dehydrated by rain, and baked again over the course of 10 days so I had no option but to keep all of my windows closed. I called every day to get it removed and only found out afterwards that they were the culprits, which they denied until they were caught on camera.
Other people have definitely suffered through worse but the situation converted me from “people are flawed but try their best and it works out” to “some people deserve to lose their jobs and when they don’t, everybody pays for it”.
my favourite part is when the UK gets a bit warm and you get all the ijits pop up beling like “Ha i live in XYZ its like 45c all year round, the uk temp is nothing to us!”
its like cool, no one asked.
It’ll soon be back, and in greater numbers.
My commute was a 25km cycle at that time. It wasn’t so bad in the morning. But the ride home was unbelievable. I arrived home little more than a puddle.
I had covid when this happened, I slept in a tub full of cold water for an hour 😂
It said 40 degrees in my car in Wiltshire. It’s the hottest my clothes have ever been, at least since they were manufactured in an Asian sweatshop.
Fairly certain that’s when I got Covid for the first time.
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It made me invest in a standing air con unit so I appreciate it for that
The 2022 heatwave sucked. We had to abandon any outdoor work in the hospital and just find somewhere shaded and cool to hide. I got so fucking ill
I sat outside with iced coffee and covid for 5 mins and decided no.
6 months later, my mate still tried to claim it rained all summer ‘as usual’
The display in the dash of my VW faded so I could barely read any of the text.
It went back to normal after the temperature cooled down again.
I remember sanding and re-staining some wooden garden furniture during that. My phone overheated in my pocket and turned itself off for a few hours.
I’m a refrigeration engineer and borrowed a 3kW portable AC from work for a few weeks. Only worked to cool one bedroom but got way more popular suddenly 😂
I had a baby in May 2022, living in a flat with no aircon and floor to ceiling windows. I don’t know how we survived. No one wore clothes for weeks.
I worked at a festival in Milton Keynes bowl that summer, pretty much the first lot of work I had post Covid… I cried at one point.. 😭
I remember i was in basingstoke visiting relatives in that time and we were in a shitty, not very well cooled hotel room and i missed Scotland and i think i saw the devil
My firstborn was born in the peak of that in July 2022.
We were so worried from dehydration to a barely feeding newborn due to tongue tie.
We barely remember the heat tbh
I had to work outside at a music festival putting up and cleaning hundreds of tents (glamping). Oh and they didn’t install the tap water until 2 days in, so we had to drive to the nearest taps and mass fill up all our bottles.
You know what the inside of tents are like, imagine having to spend all your time in them when the outside temp was 38 degrees.
One of the customers during the festival weekend came up to me and threw a fit complaining that there was a spider in their tent. I wanted to turn them into quartiles
Those of us working trauma bonded that week.
There’s a reason the Spanish have a sleep in the afternoon.
We were driving from Leeds to Pembrokeshire. It was hell. Went to the beach before our campsite and just ran into the sea.
But by the time we reached the Welsh border we were stopping every hour to get inside and take on more fluids.
I was 7 months pregnant then, I remember it well…
My workplace had just installed air-con 1month before. I remember, despite it being a 12hr shift, getting into work early on the night shift just to get that sweet sweet AC both in the car and at work.
Was it hotter than Barcelona? I believe that’s the benchmark for UK weather forecasts
I was working doing interview ops, in an airconditioned events centre the hottest day. I remember arriving at 7.30am, it was already around 30c, was sweating like anything. Inside it was fine, but the poor people that came in for their interviews throughout the day was fucking dripping.
I went to Alton Towers on the hottest day of the year. I think it got to 40 degrees at one point.
It was almost unbearable but I’d pre booked the tickets without checking the forecast. Loads of people gave up and went home in the early afternoon and I went on the Smiler 4 times at the front. It was brilliant.
My Wife and I had the most brutal Covid infection during that heatwave.
It was…less than ideal.
I was working in front of a 400° pizza oven for 12 hours that day. We were taking turns to cool off in the walk-in. Good times.
I know my dog hated it more than I did. And, I suspect, the huge floof ball of a dog near me who spends most of his time outside probably hated it even more.
We had to call football matches off on player welfare and tinderbox pitch grounds
My local council decided to dump a full moving box worth of dog shit outside my living room window and refused to collect it until it had baked, been dehydrated by rain, and baked again over the course of 10 days so I had no option but to keep all of my windows closed. I called every day to get it removed and only found out afterwards that they were the culprits, which they denied until they were caught on camera.
Other people have definitely suffered through worse but the situation converted me from “people are flawed but try their best and it works out” to “some people deserve to lose their jobs and when they don’t, everybody pays for it”.
my favourite part is when the UK gets a bit warm and you get all the ijits pop up beling like “Ha i live in XYZ its like 45c all year round, the uk temp is nothing to us!”
its like cool, no one asked.
It’ll soon be back, and in greater numbers.
My commute was a 25km cycle at that time. It wasn’t so bad in the morning. But the ride home was unbelievable. I arrived home little more than a puddle.
I had covid when this happened, I slept in a tub full of cold water for an hour 😂
It said 40 degrees in my car in Wiltshire. It’s the hottest my clothes have ever been, at least since they were manufactured in an Asian sweatshop.
Fairly certain that’s when I got Covid for the first time.
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