Parts of Europe are experiencing intense heat, and since misery loves company I decided to ask this question.
It's so hot in Roma that even the old asphalt is pulling at the soles of my shoes.
It's so hot in Roma that the ice water vendors at Fori Imperiali not only know me on sight, but they know how icy I want the water to be.
Your experiences?
Just got in to Heidelberg from Worms. It's 91° with 40% humidity. No a/c, but we have a fan in the room, which beats what we had in Worms. We have the phrase "Mehr Eis, bitte" down cold.
Back home it's 110°, but humidity is around 15% and there's plenty of a/c and a pool to jump into. But it ain't Europe, so I'm good.
The last three days I was in London, pretty much of a broiler, esp staying in the B&B at Kings Cross. Expect it to be hot, stuffy in the B&B and in the Tube coach. In B&Bs two common features prevail...no elevator, no AC. Of course, London is not as hot as Rome.
It has been 32° in Frankfurt most of this week, with it hitting 33 a few times. The European Ironman Championship is here tomorrow and I feel really sorry for the athletes in this heat.
I was really struggling this afternoon at 26 C when the forecaster had promised 22 with showers. I really needed some shade. Walked the Jane Austen trail a week before her 200th anniversary funeral procession. I enjoyed seeing her actual jewelry and especially her first editions. Paradise sitting in the garden of her house reading her books. I have a photo of a very happy wife.
-----------> Off topic - Nigel!! That sounds interesting and wonderful! As do your temps.
Feeling for the rest of you. Hit Paris and Trier last August with 95F temps and yikes, not pleasant.
Back to the regularly scheduled programming.....
34°C today in (lowland) Switzerland. It has been that way for the past few days. too much. A respite of 28-29° is promised for next week.
@Nigel, 26°, I'm jealous.
Right now in Placentia, CA it is 102 degrees. Placentia is about 6 miles from Disneyland. I don't you could pay me to go there today. If feel sorry for all the people who shelled out big dollars to wait in long lines in the sun. Doesn't sound like fun to me.
While it isn't Europe, it's been brutally hot here in B.C. lately. When I checked my electronic thermometer this morning it was 41.5C! The "official temperature is always lower for some reason.
Along with the heat, there are over 175 wildfires burning and dozens of homes have been lost. As a result of the situation, a provincial state of emergency has been declared, and evacuation centres set up for those who are displaced or have lost their home.
Given the recent fires in Portugal, Spain and France, it seems to be a bad year in many places.
Again not in Europe, but it is 102 here. There are also many fires burning as well. Seems our wet winter has left lots of brush.
DC was about 90 today, but humidity only at 40 percent - which is considered a nice day for July here.
Nigel--- While you did not violate any of the 'community guidelines', its a bit mean to bemoan your situation of it being 78F when you wanted 72F, especially when folks are dealing with 90-110+F temps. Don't make me go to the RS office and have them institute a "no rubbing salt in the wound rule" to the guidelines. ;-)
Ken, fires in Sicilia, too. Very sad for all those in danger or who have been harmed everywhere.
Nigel, that does it! I will be in London on 4 August.
It is all what you are used to. I can tell you that it was feeling pretty hot in the sun, the trousers were holding the heat, the sunscreen was taxed. Laugh if you like, but I was hot and it slowed me down. It is difficult when you dress for one weather and get another.
Yes, it can get hot in Europe in the Summer. However, generally,, outside of the MED, it is not bad. We lived in Augsburg, Germany for four years and the Germans have a joke about Summer, BOTH weeks of it.
Germany is not like that any more. For the many of the last 20 years, in Frankfurt, we have had at least a month if not more, of really hot weather. It is so miserable that the city offers bargain rates at hotels with AC, on weekends to Frankfurt residents. Barely anything has AC, so it can be very miserable, especially if you have to work in this heat. Too many times, the AC on the trains breaks down as it can't handle very high temperatures.
Remember, lots of kids are still in school here in either June, July or Aug. The get to go home if it is too hot by a certain time in the morning.
Yes, the AC does break down on the ICE train. It happens..
I experienced that on 19 June going from Hamburg to Berlin Hbf. in the late afternoon. It was getting stuffy and obviously hot. The DB staff member came in to the coach and announced that due to the AC not working and why, und, und, und, all explained in German, DB was passing out free water to help alleviate this discomfort...a very nice gesture. I was sitting among 4 young Swedish guys, one of them ask the German guy to repeat in English what he had announced. He did not, ignored the request..... just said the water was free. That goes to show don"t expect English.
Well, we are hitting 27C with 31 humidex today in Truro...lol. Only going down to 17C tonight.
We invested in a window AC unit about 5 yrs ago for our main floor, and tho we don't need it a lot, the days we do use it, it is really needed...it's in about 2-3 mos and we use it maybe 21 days or so.
I still remember when we took the train from Munich to Salzburg...I don't know what was going on, but the car we were in was boiling. I lasted about 5 min before I said...nope...and we ended up sitting in the seats in the thruway as the few cars we checked were full up or didn't have two seats together. I don't know how people stayed in that car...it had to have been about 25-30C in there.
It was brutal in Athens two weeks ago, but it's Athens in summer, that's to be expected. Friends of mine were in Rome last week and were similarly dying.
We've had a couple days in the mid-30s with high humidity starting late in the week and ending yesterday with a nice breezy rainstorm in the afternoon that nobody seemed to mind (I was at a the Buergerfest in Esslingen am Neckar). I'm lucky in that my flat is perched at the top of a narrow valley so wind gets funneled through the house and it almost always cools down enough in the evening to be pleasant to sleep. The only exception was Saturday. We were on our balcony at midnight and it was still and warm. I contemplated sleeping out there.
But at least here in SW Germany temps are down to a reasonable 27 today and will be dropping into the high 20s for the rest of the week. I don't mind a little heatwave since I like swimming but at this point we're all pleased with the cooldown.
It was so hot in Vicenza last night, I swore I saw the devil sitting in the living room...
Funny, Rik, I saw him at a bus stop yesterday.
Forecast is for 109°F / 42.8°C in Seville tomorrow.
I remember being in trains in south Germany on my first trip in 1971 when there was no AC and it was a broiler in August. One time I saw the thermometer at 30C. ot slightly above. Even with all the windows pulled down, it didn't make much of a difference. You pulled across that coarse cloth drape to block the beaming sun coming through your window. That was better than nothing...still a broiler. Those were the days.
Just to point out that, as many of you already know, pointing to temperatures means little on its own if not accompanied by the humidity level. As an example: I live in Barcelona, our thermometers rarely reach over 34-35ºC (93-95F) in the hottest days of summer, compared to say Athens or Seville -where temperatures of 45ºC (115F) and over are "common" during this time of the year- one would think it's quite "livable", right? However, when we take into account humidity, one sees an average of 40-50% during those months for the cities mentioned but in Barcelona, the average is 65% -across the year I must say! This results in that the "comfort temperature" in Barcelona on a humid day (75%+) with just 34ºC(93F) turns to be around 43ºC (110F) with the added bonus of a constant stickiness that accompanies you wherever you go during the day (and night!) unless you have A/C. In Seville, if you stay in the shadow, and with a little breeze, you can feel a bit of "coolness"... in Barcelona you don't, just warm sticky air.
I was hot on my trips .... Paris/France May 28 to june 8; then RS Barcelona/madrid June 9-18. Too hot for me. Both DH and I have decided to do our trips in Mid-April, first week of May.
I live in the Midwest and should be use to it, but NOT, especially humidity. Arrgghh
I took my first vacation trip to the Deep South (Alabama and Georgia) in 1991, in August. Montgomery was 90F with 90% humidity....a real broiler.
