Scorchio!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Phew what a scorcher!

I'm sitting at my desk with a fan on. Left the windows open all night to cool down, now all closed and curtains drawn to slow down heating up.

I have to pop out for a few hours, not looking forward to it and 'only' about 30C here at the moment! Scary to see London went from 30 to 34 between 11 and 12

I hope everyone is finding ways to stay cool.

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

How are you coping with the heat?

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

You've got to basically go native and do like they do in Spain etc

The 12-6 PM is snooze time in the coolest place possible

your "Day" is 6am to noon and 6pm to midnight

People pay good money for this experience! Lying on the beach after a swim, sipping a cool drink under a tree.

Edit: In Jockland they start going bodmin after a few days of this so I hope it eases off by Friday

Edited By Ady1 on 18/07/2022 13:07:06

[Bill Davies 2Participant @billdavies2]

It's 30°C here in Cardiff, too. I'm sitting browsing the laptop, whilst a plumber, electrician and builder are all working hard on an extension. I'm providing cold drinks. All doors are open, so the house is soaking up the heat, and we will pay for it tonight!

Too warm for the garage/workshop!

Bill

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Too warm for the garage/workshop!

Eh? Just been in mine. Under 22 in there. Insulation works!

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Yesterday up at the St Albans track it was very nice sitting in the shade with a breeze wafting trough the trees. Most of the track is in shade and the first few cars to arrive also get the shady spot. Luckily there was no obligation to do any maintenance work or building of the new G1/16mm track. I had planned to read the latest G1MRA newsletter but spent all the time chatting and this morning MEW turned up so I've got a backlog.

Currently inside at 24C as garden is rather sultry even in the shade.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

I have a maximum/minimum thermometer that had been screwed to wall of an oven-like sun-trap just outside the kitchen door, but this morning I re-set its pointers and stood in the shade of the sill of a window on the North-facing workshop.

So we'll see what this bit of South Dorset's coast is like…

I've just had a look, at about 1pm GMT (more pertinent here than BST as it calls the astronomical noon, 12:00). It had reached 26ºC but has dropped back to a chilly 25.

I have been out, briefly, but not in the hottest time of the morning; but I am keeping out of the worst of the Sun.

Hmmm. We wear full boiler-suit, leather gloves and full-face mask to ward off the ultra-violet radiation in a 5-minute arc-welding task; but when we go to the seaside, think little of being scantily-clad in the same frequency radiation from Space for 60 times as long!.

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 18/07/2022 12:42:12:

Phew what a scorcher!

I'm ashamed of you Neil – that headline is the sort of thing one expects from the red-topped rags, not the editor of a high class magazine like MEW!

[David George 1Participant @davidgeorge1]

Just sent off my latest article to Neil, Hope he has received it as I hope I have his correct email address.

Its toooo hot to play in garage.

David

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

It's 36 in the NW here (UK). Too hot in the workshop even tho I have 8 " insulation in the roof. Now got to take dog out. He's got to wear a fur coat poor lad

[Nigel BennettParticipant @nigelbennett69913]

We were all complaining a while back about the ice and snow then prevalent in the UK – and some kind soul posted a photo he'd just taken outside in Oz – reading 49°C… we've a way to go yet.

Just been for a few minutes' coolth in my workshop – 22°C in there still – aaah! 51°C in the greenhouse next door…

[noel shelleyParticipant @noelshelley55608]

North Norfolk says 35c in the shade ! Now I know why I bought a motorcycle ! The sound of a WET road as the tar has melted, rode home VERY carefully ! Noel.

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

31 degrees on the UK NW coast, and there were even a few drops of rain not that long ago – big drops and not very many and only for a minute or two, but drops none the less.

Rob

[lee websterParticipant @leewebster72680]

I have kept out of the sun all my life. Sunstroke is something really nasty. But now I am getting older, and I hope fitter, I can work in the garden in this heat for hours at a time wearing a large sunhat that also protects my neck. I now drink lots of water and stop for a hot drink often. I have only applied sun tan lotion twice so far.

Stay safe everyone!

Lee

[JohnFParticipant @johnf59703]

Guess I'm lucky ! Been in my nice cool NW workshop most of the afternoon — outside temp is 30deg but at 20deg W/Shop is fine. Lucky its underneath the lounge at the back of the house and gets only early morning sun.

Now need to venture out and treat my Labrador to a swim !

John

[Bryan Cedar 1Participant @bryancedar1]

Roll on Global Warming it it means the winters will be warmer. Think of the heating fuel savings!!

I am a firm believer that this current heat wave is not global warming but simply to do with the wind flow from the African continent.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, cool in my workroom indoors, but the walls in my pad are about 406mm thick in that part of the house, so takes a long time for the heat to get through. Below is a thermometer that I normally have in the kitchen but hung it in my 1100mm deep by 2000mm wide open fronted porch for a good while and took the first photo at about 16:10 Hrs then moved it out of the porch and hung it on the outside tap and took the second photo at about 16:30.

Slightly cooler in the porch but the difference was noticeable when stepping out of it, this part of the house is in the shade at this time of the day and the sun being to the left and behind the house.

Regards Nick.

[Dave HalfordParticipant @davehalford22513]

33C outside just south of Brum and barely a breeze.

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

Posted by Dave Halford on 18/07/2022 17:03:49:

33C outside just south of Brum and barely a breeze.

36C in Kings Norton and 37C coming home up the 435 just now

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by David George 1 on 18/07/2022 15:35:13:

Just sent off my latest article to Neil, Hope he has received it as I hope I have his correct email address.

Its toooo hot to play in garage.

David

Yes, will be dealing with emails tomorrow, I hope (I don't work on MEW full time).

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

This is my max min, it was in full sun up yo about 1 03 2 pm.

114F / 49C. A gentle 34C in the shade here now…

[geoff walker 1Participant @geoffwalker1]

I'm ok, managing the heat, no problem but the Sherline is suffering.

Turning up some brass bushes with set up in the photo using the front and rear Toolpost.

With posts firmly locked in place the cross slide feed has gone very heavy.

Release the locks and it smooth and as normal.

Too hot, expanding aluminium alloy cross slide, can't take the heat, resulting in abnormal distortion? What do you guys think?

[vic neweyParticipant @vicnewey60017]

Our outside sensor recorded 40c here in Worcestershire after lunch, all my machines, tools, vice etc felt warm in the shed

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

Greenhouses were 43°C.

Workshop was much nicer. Insulation plus mini-split:-

[old martParticipant @oldmart]

33.7C outside and 29.6C inside in sunny Weston Super Mare at 7:30 pm. The See Monster has finally arrived, I hope somebody makes a tv documentary about it.

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