I haven't melted

[hils]

A couple of people on Tumblr reached out because the UK heatwave was on the news pretty much everywhere and they wanted to check I was okay.

Figured I should let everyone know that I'm still alive!

The heat was absolutely insane on Mon and Tue. It started to cool down a bit on Wed and is back to normal now.

I'm lucky that I had Monday off work so I was able to stay inside at home, and on Tue (the worst day where it was 40c in my city) I was at work most of the time in a nice air conditioned office. The drive home was pretty brutal but it only took 20 mins as the roads were pretty clear.

It's been hard to sleep because of the heat even keeping my blackout curtains closed and blasting a fan. I'm hoping now that it's cooled down a lot (it's only 17c today) that I'll sleep better tonight. The house is still retaining a lot of residual heat though, which is what British houses are designed to do. It was 25c in the house when I went to bed last night and it's dropped to 23.5c today. That's with various windows open so it's still a lot warmer in the house than it is outside.

Comments

[profiterole_reads]

Tuesday was like I was in an oven. Fortunately, it's better now.

[hils]

Definitely a lot better now

[kazzy_cee]

Yup - it was pretty awful wasn’t it. Got to 41.1 in my garden and still 39° on Tuesday night in our bedroom 🥵

Thank goodness it’s back to normal temperatures now. We’ve even had some rain here today! Not enough - but some!

[hils]

We had a small shower yesterday evening. The birds loved it they were all splashing in the puddles. Sadly back to warm and dry now

[sunshine304]

The heat was atrocious! Germany wasn't doing much better, though we're at least kind of used to lots of 30+ each year.
But on Tuesday, it was 39°C... At work, it's nice and cool (no A/C, it's just the construction plus a huge ass tree right in front of my office) but when we left there on Tuesday we basically ran against a very hot wall. And my flat under the roof has been awful...

At least it cooled down a bit over night so I could try to let some cool air in in the morning. But the roof isn't isolated so the heat radiates down even longer...

I'm glad that you got through it okay! We had such a severe temperature drop from Tuesday at 39c to Thursday at 19c (!!) with rain the whole day... It's crazy...

[hils]

Yeah, we've had a massive temp drop too. We could use some rain though!

[rebeccama]

I am glad that you are doing ok. I know a lot of people are suffering right now.