I'm about a degree from a heatstroke.

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:zx11pissed: WHAT!

Did you know the heat brings out the temper in people?

Weak my :censored:ing ass, come here n say that....i'll suck the life outta ya...i mean fuck, i mean knock doh :biggrin1:
Ja ja.. promises promises! :biggrin1:

seriously.. come on down for the Mediterranean hotness. You'll learn to love it. :rolleyes:
 

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First, forget drinking alcohol.

A cup of very hot, very sweet green tea helps.

The UK is loaded with stone buildings. Find a downstairs pub to take advantage of the thermal dynamics of stone buildings.

Buy an air conditioner and realize there are some days you may need to use it. You don't have to crank it up to icebox settings like most Americans do. Just a few degrees and the dehumidifying effects of the a/c process can make you very comfortable, particularly at night.

Don't take cold showers! They'll make the heat feel worse. Start with a warm shower and then drop it just a few degrees, slowly adjusting to the temperature change. Then drop it a few more. You want something that's slightly cool, allowing your body temperature to adjust to the water temperature gradually. You'll feel cooler and won't sweat nearly as much when you get out.

The quickest way to cool is to take some hand or tea-sized towels, soak them in water, then drape them around the back of your neck. Your major arteries and veins pass through your neck and the cool towel helps to cool the blood traveling through your system. Once again, ice cold isn't good. Start with slightly cool towels and then work-up to colder ones as you exchange them. Keep the towels wrapped around your neck and they should help cool you while walking around.

Remember to stay hydrated. Drink more fluids than you think you should avoiding alcohol and caffeine as both are dehydrating. Ades are wonderful for summer because they help replenish lost electrolytes. You can make ades out of anything fruity and don't be afraid to add sugar. Iced tea is good too though I think you people consider it heretical.

Please learn the signs of heatstroke and call on your ill and elderly neighbors to check in on them. Heat is deadly for the elderly and you don't feel heatstroke coming until after you have it.
 

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The cloud has crept in along the coast in the last half hour and it's dropped to a lovely 26c :smile:
Is that you in the avatar trying to stay warm when the needle drops below thirty Davey?
 

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That is UNHOLY...now i have a fascination with tornados and i love the Wizard of Oz but there aint nothing getting me to Kansas with that kind of satanical fridge going on!

You have got to come to NY. We'd love to meet you. BTW, today is a very pleasant 23.8C with a thunderstorm just passing by. It may rain a lot this summer, but it's not unGodly hot yet.
 

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I come from the Southwestern United States. I am currently on a horse ranch in southwestern New Mexico. I also lived for years in and around Palm Springs, California.

Temperatures in the desert southwest can reach incredible levels and we all learn to cope.

In Palm Springs, my other half and I worked on our home with floodlights outside at night to avoid the worst heat of the day. Temperatures differ around the Coachella Valley and can reach 115-118 degrees farenheit at peak temperature hours. This is 46 to nearly 48 on the centegrade scale. On the asphalt highway of interstate 10 in the center of the sand pit area of the Coachella valley temperatures have been measured at 131 degrees again at peak temperature times. (This is 55 degrees centigrade) Night time temperatures can easily remain at 101 (38.3c) to 103 (39.4c) degrees. Again this is common to such cities as Palm Springs, California, Phoenix, Arizona and even Las Vegas, Nevada.

If you have to go out in extreme heat you need to re-educate yourself as to what to do.

Look at how people survive in the middle east in temperatures like this.

The first thing is that you layer clothing and try to first keep the heat off of you and secondarily keep the sweat on you controlling the evaporation rate. Taking off clothing is not always the right thing to do. It speeds up the evaporation rate and causes you to dehydrate a great deal faster making you in fact more miserable than if you coverd over.

In your layering of clothing, your inner layer should be breathable cotton, and your outer layer should be of a very light color to not work as a heat attractor and also to control losses. If you wear a head covering make certain that it allows a great deal of air circulation because a great percentage of heat is lost through the scalp.

Many think the clothing worn in the Middle East has religious meaning. Some does some does not. The main reason for all of the heavy clothing is shielding from both heat and blowing sand and control of body fluid losses.

In high humidity environments you can dehydrate a great deal more quickly and the sweat becomes an insulator because it does not evaporate and this sends mixed signals to the body. They body says I am not cooling so it sweats more to compensate. The main thing is hydration and it must be water that is NOT ice cold. Water consumed under these conditions can be COOL but not cold and insufficient water consumption sends your body into shock. COLD water immediately can send your body into shock and again screws up the thermostat.

Water intake must be in a controlled manner. Too much water too quickly causes you to throw up under these conditions and this places you in real danger of heat exhaustion and can make you a candidate for heat stroke.

I myself did this one back in 1991 and the damage I did to myself and illness I created from making errors on this judgment stuck with me for six months.

I am to this day more sensitive to heat and can feel heat problems coming on far faster than before this happened to me.

I made my error by not understanding the humidity and how humidity factored into the equation. I was rescuing a 1958 Chevrolet Impala from an Irrigated Bean Field near a pump house in the central farming valley near Turlock, California. Outside temperatures were 101 degrees (38.3c) and humidity because of the flowing crop irrigation was nearly 70%. I almost died for that damn Impala.

If you get into a situation where sweating stops you are in real trouble because that means that your bodies cooling mechanism has shut down and you are headed for heat stroke which is often fatal. When this happened to me I realized it and used a crop irrigation canal to simply jump in and try to drop my body core temperature. I did this with my clothing on and fortunatley for me it worked.

Be careful in high temperatures and learn how to combat it. Be careful because improper management can cost you dearly and I found it out the hard way. . . .

 

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First, forget drinking alcohol.

A cup of very hot, very sweet green tea helps.

The UK is loaded with stone buildings. Find a downstairs pub to take advantage of the thermal dynamics of stone buildings.

Buy an air conditioner and realize there are some days you may need to use it. You don't have to crank it up to icebox settings like most Americans do. Just a few degrees and the dehumidifying effects of the a/c process can make you very comfortable, particularly at night.

Don't take cold showers! They'll make the heat feel worse. Start with a warm shower and then drop it just a few degrees, slowly adjusting to the temperature change. Then drop it a few more. You want something that's slightly cool, allowing your body temperature to adjust to the water temperature gradually. You'll feel cooler and won't sweat nearly as much when you get out.

The quickest way to cool is to take some hand or tea-sized towels, soak them in water, then drape them around the back of your neck. Your major arteries and veins pass through your neck and the cool towel helps to cool the blood traveling through your system. Once again, ice cold isn't good. Start with slightly cool towels and then work-up to colder ones as you exchange them. Keep the towels wrapped around your neck and they should help cool you while walking around.

Remember to stay hydrated. Drink more fluids than you think you should avoiding alcohol and caffeine as both are dehydrating. Ades are wonderful for summer because they help replenish lost electrolytes. You can make ades out of anything fruity and don't be afraid to add sugar. Iced tea is good too though I think you people consider it heretical.

Please learn the signs of heatstroke and call on your ill and elderly neighbors to check in on them. Heat is deadly for the elderly and you don't feel heatstroke coming until after you have it.

I come from the Southwestern United States. I am currently on a horse ranch in southwestern New Mexico. I also lived for years in and around Palm Springs, California.

Temperatures in the desert southwest can reach incredible levels and we all learn to cope.

In Palm Springs, my other half and I worked on our home with floodlights outside at night to avoid the worst heat of the day. Temperatures differ around the Coachella Valley and can reach 115-118 degrees farenheit at peak temperature hours. This is 46 to nearly 48 on the centegrade scale. On the asphalt highway of interstate 10 in the center of the sand pit area of the Coachella valley temperatures have been measured at 131 degrees again at peak temperature times. (This is 55 degrees centigrade) Night time temperatures can easily remain at 101 (38.3c) to 103 (39.4c) degrees. Again this is common to such cities as Palm Springs, California, Phoenix, Arizona and even Las Vegas, Nevada.

If you have to go out in extreme heat you need to re-educate yourself as to what to do.

Look at how people survive in the middle east in temperatures like this.

The first thing is that you layer clothing and try to first keep the heat off of you and secondarily keep the sweat on you controlling the evaporation rate. Taking off clothing is not always the right thing to do. It speeds up the evaporation rate and causes you to dehydrate a great deal faster making you in fact more miserable than if you coverd over.

In your layering of clothing, your inner layer should be breathable cotton, and your outer layer should be of a very light color to not work as a heat attractor and also to control losses. If you wear a head covering make certain that it allows a great deal of air circulation because a great percentage of heat is lost through the scalp.

Many think the clothing worn in the Middle East has religious meaning. Some does some does not. The main reason for all of the heavy clothing is shielding from both heat and blowing sand and control of body fluid losses.

In high humidity environments you can dehydrate a great deal more quickly and the sweat becomes an insulator because it does not evaporate and this sends mixed signals to the body. They body says I am not cooling so it sweats more to compensate. The main thing is hydration and it must be water that is NOT ice cold. Water consumed under these conditions can be COOL but not cold and insufficient water consumption sends your body into shock. COLD water immediately can send your body into shock and again screws up the thermostat.

Water intake must be in a controlled manner. Too much water too quickly causes you to throw up under these conditions and this places you in real danger of heat exhaustion and can make you a candidate for heat stroke.

I myself did this one back in 1991 and the damage I did to myself and illness I created from making errors on this judgment stuck with me for six months.

I am to this day more sensitive to heat and can feel heat problems coming on far faster than before this happened to me.

I made my error by not understanding the humidity and how humidity factored into the equation. I was rescuing a 1958 Chevrolet Impala from an Irrigated Bean Field near a pump house in the central farming valley near Turlock, California. Outside temperatures were 101 degrees (38.3c) and humidity because of the flowing crop irrigation was nearly 70%. I almost died for that damn Impala.

If you get into a situation where sweating stops you are in real trouble because that means that your bodies cooling mechanism has shut down and you are headed for heat stroke which is often fatal. When this happened to me I realized it and used a crop irrigation canal to simply jump in and try to drop my body core temperature. I did this with my clothing on and fortunatley for me it worked.

Be careful in high temperatures and learn how to combat it. Be careful because improper management can cost you dearly and I found it out the hard way. . . .

And now i'm back at schooooool! :mad:

Seriously tho, thx for advice and omg Jason....i'm sat here drinking alchohol doh
 

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uh uh stop moving like a monkey on viagra and start stay still like a rock also works..


its a zen thing...:blindfold:
 

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Have to say I love it. It's coming up to 8.30pm and it's still about 24C but there's a gentle breeze blowing through the open windows. My skin's still hot from sunbathing in a park during my lunch break and people definitely seem to be in a better mood here in London. Yep, must be summer! :smile:
 

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Have to say I love it. It's coming up to 8.30pm and it's still about 24C but there's a gentle breeze blowing through the open windows. My skin's still hot from sunbathing in a park during my lunch break and people definitely seem to be in a better mood here in London. Yep, must be summer! :smile:

The temp has fallen a little here to 27C but its still too humid, i'm not looking forward to a good nights sleep
 

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Maybe rude to say, but deal with it :biggrin: We rarely get this weather, enjoy it and see the positive things of it like staying late outside on a terrace with friends enjoying a cool drink and a good talk. Use the BBQ for parties outside, put the sprinklers on or so or do a waterballoonfight :tongue: