[Misc] The Hot Weather

[Sussex Nomad]

Don't remember exacts, but definitely Egypt - dry heat, instate Greenville, South Carolina at any time and day during high summer - 100% humidity, and something approaching 50 degrees on my balcony once when I was in Benalmadena (see below).

 

[Mental Lental]

What I don't get about the whole slightly hot weather + British people conundrum is why nobody thinks to buy an electric fan, or god forbid an air conditioner. Ok, air cons are expensive but you can buy a pair of chunky standing fans for 27 quid for 2 on Amazon....

https://tinyurl.com/yyrygzbf

That's 14 quid per fan. Which costs less than 3 pints in a Brighton pub.

 

[Saunders]

Don't remember exacts, but definitely Egypt - dry heat, instate Greenville, South Carolina at any time and day during high summer - 100% humidity, and something approaching 50 degrees on my balcony once when I was in Benalmadena (see below).

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You need to measure it in the shade not where the sun is beating down on it.

 

[wellquickwoody]

What I don't get about the whole slightly hot weather + British people conundrum is why nobody thinks to buy an electric fan, or god forbid an air conditioner. Ok, air cons are expensive but you can buy a pair of chunky standing fans for 27 quid for 2 on Amazon....

https://tinyurl.com/yyrygzbf

That's 14 quid per fan. Which costs less than 3 pints in a Brighton pub.

But it only happens once in a blue moon, people shouldn’t have to weigh out of their benefits for that, the government should provide them...............

 

[Sussex Nomad]

You need to measure it in the shade not where the sun is beating down on it.

Are you telling me that's how they measure weather temps nowadays? In the shade?

 

[banjo]

Well that’s that then. Back to the norm.

 

[Weststander]

Well that’s that then. Back to the norm.

Giving us our:

 

[Saunders]

Are you telling me that's how they measure weather temps nowadays? In the shade?

Yes official temps if the sun is on the thermometer it isnt accurate.

 

[dazzer6666]

What I don't get about the whole slightly hot weather + British people conundrum is why nobody thinks to buy an electric fan, or god forbid an air conditioner. Ok, air cons are expensive but you can buy a pair of chunky standing fans for 27 quid for 2 on Amazon....

https://tinyurl.com/yyrygzbf

That's 14 quid per fan. Which costs less than 3 pints in a Brighton pub.

......and have them cluttering up the house/loft for the 363 days a year they’re not needed.......

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Yes official temps if the sun is on the thermometer it isnt accurate.

It was when I was standing in it.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Yes official temps if the sun is on the thermometer it isnt accurate.

Whether under the sun or the shade that was the heat. If you feel the need to downgrade it, that is your prerogative. I am the only person to show a temp and you are the only person to question it. Heat is heat, whatever, do you get it?

 

[mikeyjh]

Whether under the sun or the shade that was the heat. If you feel the need to downgrade it, that is your prerogative. I am the only person to show a temp and you are the only person to question it. Heat is heat, whatever, do you get it?

I'm no sure if you're 'whooshing' here, or not but..... We take temperature readings in the shade, that's how we find the 'average' temperature, by putting the thermometer in direct sunlight, you're accumulating heat, like a greenhouse, and therefore not giving a correct reading. So, the record temperature in Cambridge last week at 38.7 was in the shade, that's why when people add 'in the shade' to their temperature readings, it's completely meaningless.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Are you telling me that's how they measure weather temps nowadays? In the shade?

Er, yes. Always have done.

 

[franks brother]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd2VTm1e5CA
And the weather today is?