Quite. My partner’s previous experience with one that she’d borrowed was better than this, but that preceded me pointing the Draper 20in Fan Of Doom at her.
Dyson stuff’s pretty, but it’s just not very good and James Dyson is a complete arsehole, so I’m happy he won’t be getting any of our money.
My nephew is installing a roof on a factory in Peterborough. Would not harm an MP to join him.
Correct. So what does one do in a heat emergency?
Because our ankles and wrists have major veins and arteries close to the skin if you submerge them in cool water you can release enough heat to save yourself. A bathtub is a life saver when you have no air conditioner and live somewhere too humid for swamp coolers.
Only 25% here in Anglesey earlier, which basically spared me heatstroke. That and the three litres of water I drank while riding bike.
I’m currently reading some Murray Bookchin, but I think this might be my next read. My husband just finished it…
As a lifetime San Francisco Bay Area resident I’m a total weather wimp, so any time the weather here is hot and humid (which is rare) I get pretty unhappy. I worship our afternoon summer fog.
I love the UK and sorta thought it might be a good place to flee our impending ChristoFascist takeover but between Brexit, the Tories, and this heat wave I’m not so sure anymore.
Best I can tell from Montana (where I get to complain about the overnight low of 15 C being too warm) the advisories being published all over across the Pond are crap. They start well with drinking lots of water, but folk there dress all wrong for heat and simply can’t sweat enough. As a Phoenix native, a few critical tips:
If the wet-bulb temp gets above 30 C, nothing will save you but artificial cooling or a deep cave. Be clear about this: You can’t tough it out, stiff upper lips melt like butter, and I don’t care how toned and fit you are: Somewhere between 30 and 35 C kills [1]. Act like your life depends on what you do, and time is not your friend.
[1] Children are less heat-tolerant than adults, and have the annoying tendency to go from lethargic to dead in silence.
Same here, and for me it’s the “subtract 32 degrees” bit of the conversion that is the deal-breaker.
Hopefully there is supply. When the heat wave hit Canada last year the A/C supply vanished. There was also some profiteering.
The problem with this in the UK like here is that the heat emergencies are coming in zones that previously had A/C as a comfort not a necessity.
Whereas those of us who think in Celsius are completely mystified (and grudgingly impressed) that anyone can get their head around a temperature scale in which water freezes at 32° and boils at 212°. It’s a level of bonkers up there with pre-decimal UK money with shillings, pence, farthings, groats etc etc etc.
I was stationed in the UK from 1989 - 1991. I remember the ‘heatwave’ at the time of a week or so of 25°C temperatures. Locals were actually passing out because they weren’t used to it and didn’t know how to deal with it. This is going to be so much worse, although at least it’ll be better than the next one. (Next year? Year after?)
Fahrenheit’s one use that makes sense is in dealing with weather temperatures. Sure, water freezes at 32F, but snow doesn’t squeak until it’s below zero. And we know “hot” starts at 85F, 100F is terrible, anything higher is “go hide out in a basement” - the last bit is doubly useful if you live in tornado country.
Celsius makes so much more logical sense than Fahrenheit, I get that. I’m also OK with implicityl understanding distances in km and how heavy a kg is. With temps it’s just a cultural thing, I guess. When someone says “It’s 100º today!” by brain says “Wow that’s hot” but when I’m outside the US and am told “It’s 37º today!” by brain says “Uhhh… is that good or bad?” Maybe because the formula isn’t quite to simple as something like kg = 2.2 lbs.
Fahrenheit is technically a more precise scale. Since there are more unit/degrees in the scale, almost twice as many between freezing and boiling of water.
You can get around that easily enough by using decimals in Celsius. But then you go and decimalize the Fahrenheit…
The easy math trade off, more than over comes that in broader use.
For practical stuff like cooking, in a country that already uses Fahrenheit where the tools are already in Fahrenheit. It doesn’t make sense to use Celsius instead. Your not generally going to encounter the math end of it, and you aren’t gaining anything precision wise.
You can see the issue with finish cooking temps. Like the difference between slicing temps and pulling temps on a slow roasted or BBQ pork is somewhere between 3-4 degrees in Celsius. If you’re recipe doesn’t list in decimals, and the scale in your thermometer is tight.
You can pretty easily over or undershoot.
That would go for weather to a certain extent. Most people aren’t going to be doing math here, and more degrees in the practical scale is a little easier for most.
But again the problem is largely solved with decimals.
The perceptual stuff you’re talking about. People in metric/Celsius countries “know” the same stuff. In Celsius.
100 degrees is danger weather is only intuitive if you’re used to 100 degrees being danger weather, and because it’s a nice round number. There’s nothing intuitive about 32 being freezing. Or -27 being dangerously cold.
When we had our Western US heat wave last year, it coincided with an outdoor gathering we had been planning for months. Rather than cancel, we arranged plenty of shade and a large-scale misting fan. The misting fan was a game-changer:
Same here, fifty miles south, just outside MK.
Took dog for a very short walk in the shade, had to pick him up where the walk met tarmac.
Glad I do not own a big dog.
You double it and add 30. Part of a classic comedy sketch:
Summer is just beginning. Try next month.
