Well, another summer has come! I plan on staying indoors as much as possible, stay near the air conditioning vents, drink plenty of cold water, and if I absolutely have to be outside, to wear lots of sunscreen and always have water with me at all times!

Have fun and stay safe this summer 2007!  :) :)

Yes, when it gets really hot, I stay in my air conditioned house. I wish I lived by the beach though...I'd be there almost always.

I try to get out as much as I can.  I don't have A/C in my place, and the crappy fans I have don't really do the trick.  And of course the A/C in the car doesn't work :(

Drinking a ton of water, keeping the fans on (no AC) and trying to stay in rooms with good ventilation.

One of the things that makes me so glad I grew up in Europe is that there's no A/C there and bedrooms are always upstairs - Heat rises.

I remember down near Marseilles, it being over 100 degrees for extended periods of time, having no a/c and just crappy fans.. thus, when it gets up to 100+ here, It doesn't bother me all that much, plus I'm in a basement and have a/c anyway, so it's nice.  ;D

Avoid crowds, drink plenty of water and stay indoors with the window open.

Drinking water and staying indoors with the air conditioner.

The temperature rarely hits 30°C / 96°F here, but when it does it's a very dry heat so it's quite nice. The idea of getting up around 40 (106) seems foreign to me. I don't know how I'd cope.

I just have a fan on inside when it's hot. An A/C or heat pump (one that blows cold air too) would be nice but very expensive. Drink heaps of water and wear loose fitting, light coloured clothing.

We do have a crappy A/C here in the office (left by our last tenant). I really hate A/C (especially this one) and would rather not use it if I can. However, there are some days when the heat and humidity is just so unbearable that it is needed (like earlier this week). We also have fans throughout the house. When things get really bad and we are in a room without the A/C, I take a wet paper towel and wipe myself with it. Sometimes I will even sleep with it. But right now, it is VERY cool. The windows are open and the temp is very pleasant (64 degrees F.)-my kind of weather.



Cat

I'll just walk around naked.  8)

At least take a jumper off.

Since I'm going to be working this summer at Pathmark outdoors in the parking lot,I must consume a lot of water so as I don't get dehydrated.

Plus at home in my room I have this old Westinghouse A/C and if you leave the door closed for a couple of hours,when you arrive in,It feels  just like Nome,Alaska.You'd need a blanket or sweater for during the evening hours.

I'll just walk around naked.   8)


In your house or outside?  :o

I swim with the kids if it get to hot when I'm outside with them.

Got to have the A/C on since it's so humid...I couldn't survive without it.

Since I'm going to be working this summer at Pathmark outdoors in the parking lot,I must consume a lot of water so as I don't get dehydrated.

Plus at home in my room I have this old Westinghouse A/C and if you leave the door closed for a couple of hours,when you arrive in,It feels  just like Nome,Alaska.You'd need a blanket or sweater for during the evening hours.



well, that sounds very cozy! I love sleeping in my room when it's cool...and then having to put on a blanket...that is very comfortable temps for me.

wear loose fitting, light coloured clothing.


My collection of metal band t-shirts has proven my enemy this summer.. of course, I can drive now, so I don't have to walk as much.. I used to have a 2-mile walk in the noon-day sun to band practice every day.

Right, it's tough wearing only black and denim.

Thankfully, because I sold out, 5 days a week I wear a white shirt.  ;D

In your house or outside?  :o
Both?

I hate the heat. I try to stay inside as much as possible. We stand a fan on a chair at the end of the bed and switch it on high speed at night just so we can sleep when it's too hot.No air con in good old Blighty!

Opem the window wider.

we don't have a/c, but have ceiling fans in the bedrooms and 1 in the family room and they work well and I drink everything cold I can get my hands on and eats ice cream and wear very little clothing, usually just shorts & a tanktop or topless  :D

well, that sounds very cozy! I love sleeping in my room when it's cool...and then having to put on a blanket...that is very comfortable temps for me.


Yeah Erin,cold enough that your teeth start chattering.Then when you turn off my air conditioner,you'd need a window open for a while to warm up the room again.

I hate the heat sometimes.When it's above 90,I sweat profuciously.It's almost like sweatballs being thrown right at me. :P 

AC, lots of fans...and light clothing that breathes (i.e. COTTON!)  :D

Dig a hole and hide!  :D

In actual fact, the heat's not been a problem for us at the moment...and the rain is lovely and warm!

Thankfully, because I sold out, 5 days a week I wear a white shirt.  ;D


Poser.

I take cold showers

Yes, when it gets really hot, I stay in my air conditioned house. I wish I lived by the beach though...I'd be there almost always.

You're lucky, lol - there isn't even air conditioning in the townhouse complex I'm in. It's an upstairs unit, so the ceilings are pretty high downstairs, but the bedrooms can be really uncomfortable this time of year.

You're lucky, lol - there isn't even air conditioning in the townhouse complex I'm in. It's an upstairs unit, so the ceilings are pretty high downstairs, but the bedrooms can be really uncomfortable this time of year.



wow, that surprises me...most townhouse complexes that I know of (around here) all have central air. :-\\

wow, that surprises me...most townhouse complexes that I know of (around here) all have central air. :-\\


Yeah, I think some of the units have it (they're not all connected, so it's probably installable per house), but we usually just use some big fans during the Summer. Although the bedrooms are still stuffy, because the ceiling in here is about 10 feet, lol.

BTW, I did a search online recently, and I found out it was built in 1979 (there's even a picture I saved of it - now, that was a real BTTF feeling! ;) ), so maybe it wasn't as common then. Even that recently, this part of San Jose was kinda rural compared to now.

Yeah Erin,cold enough that your teeth start chattering.Then when you turn off my air conditioner,you'd need a window open for a while to warm up the room again.


doesn't it have a temp setting to stop it getting so cold in the first palce?

doesn't it have a temp setting to stop it getting so cold in the first palce?


No It doesn't Karen.

I'll let you know when it feels like summer here!  ;D

Let me know when summer arirves!

Let me know when summer arirves!



My sentiments exactly.  And it is mornings like this when I can't wait to live in AZ.

i have a HUGE fan in my room that sounds like an airplane turbine. although, i keep that in my room in the winter too. i love being cold at night!

When I lived in Texas, I had a neighbor that would set her A/C at about 50 in the summer claiming she couldn't stand the heat. Ok, I can buy that, but then she would set her heat about 85 in the winter because she couldn't stand the cold.  ??? ???  I just didn't get it. I could understand if she kept the temp about the same year round but she didn't. I really hated to see her electric bill.



Cat

Put an umbrella up!

Put an umbrella up!


People here do that all the time, to keep the sun from shining on them...

The part I don't get is that many of them use black umbrellas, which only conduct the heat!  ::)

People here do that all the time, to keep the sun from shining on them...

The part I don't get is that many of them use black umbrellas, which only conduct the heat!  ::)
At least it keeps us dry.

At least it keeps us dry.


Well, it depends on whether you're talking about the heat or the rain...

Well, it depends on whether you're talking about the heat or the rain...
If it is summer time over here, then rain is guaranteed.

I hate the summer sometimes especially when it gets well up into the 90's with high humidity.  :P

People here do that all the time, to keep the sun from shining on them...

The part I don't get is that many of them use black umbrellas, which only conduct the heat!  ::)


In some tribes in Africa they wear black clothing.  Although this absorbs the maximum amount of heat it sets up convection currents as the hot air near the surface of the garment then rises, thus introducing a small element of personal cooling.

In some tribes in Africa they wear black clothing.  Although this absorbs the maximum amount of heat it sets up convection currents as the hot air near the surface of the garment then rises, thus introducing a small element of personal cooling.
I have always wondered about that, so the clothing develops it's own draught?

I have always wondered about that, so the clothing develops it's own draught?


The paper I have (Nature, vol. 283, pgs 373-375, 1980) says that the exact mechanisms isn't understood but is likely to be a sort of chimney effect.  The skin temperature of the person was the same whether they were wearing a white robe or a black robe.

People here do that all the time, to keep the sun from shining on them...

The part I don't get is that many of them use black umbrellas, which only conduct the heat!  ::)


Because it looks better.  :D 

It is summer here all year but July is the hottest month of the year with every little rain.  Just have to stay indoors. 

The paper I have (Nature, vol. 283, pgs 373-375, 1980) says that the exact mechanisms isn't understood but is likely to be a sort of chimney effect.  The skin temperature of the person was the same whether they were wearing a white robe or a black robe.
If you do keep a hat on, to do get warmer, I have always noticed that on a summers day.

I take showers.

I like the sun and the hot hot heat.  I don't really do anything.

I like the sun and the hot hot heat.  I don't really do anything.





Me, too.  Can't wait for it to be summer here in Michigan.  :P

I like the sun and the hot hot heat.  I don't really do anything.




I don't like blistering heat.

by drinking plenty of cold water and going to the freezer in Pathmark. ;D

Wish it was summer in New Zealand now. Brrr...

i like to walk down the beach...i keep bode's leash on and she swims, i walk.  fun and cool....

Wish it was summer in New Zealand now. Brrr...


winter time?

Wish it was summer in New Zealand now. Brrr...
Shall we swap seasons?

I drink plenty of water.

drinking cold water, taking cold showers, staying in the air conditioned house.

Shall we swap seasons?
I'm sure an English summer aint that much warmer than a New Zealand winter?  ::) ;D

I got a "beer AID kit" everywhere I go 
8)

to keep myself cool form sun up to sun down  :)

Got an a/c in the office, got an a/c in the car...and I sweat it out at home. ;D


But seriously...we don't get summers like you. To give you an impression: anything above 25° C (77° F) is called "summer", and anything above 30° C (86° F) is "tropical". It don't get much warmer than that over here.

Temeratures generally range from 20°C-30°C between December and March. The mercury goes above 30°C about 5-10 times a year, in which it's relatively tolerable, depending on what you're doing in that heat. Wouldn't wanna be cherry picking on one of them days. :P

Been in melbourne on a 40°C day before, that's not so nice. :P Basically just lay around all day in an un-airconditioned house. All doors and windows open fans on full...

I got a "beer AID kit" everywhere I go 
8)

to keep myself cool form sun up to sun down  :)



Beer doesn't seem like a good thirst quencher.

Beer doesn't seem like a good thirst quencher.


It's not.

A couple of weeks ago, me and my pal were at the ball game and we had a few beers and we both agreed that we were sweating it out and could smell it.  ;D When it's that hot, I hate to say it, but water is the best thing.

It's not.

A couple of weeks ago, me and my pal were at the ball game and we had a few beers and we both agreed that we were sweating it out and could smell it.  ;D When it's that hot, I hate to say it, but water is the best thing.
Tea is refreshing on a hot day

Tea is refreshing on a hot day


Iced Tea.

Beer doesn't seem like a good thirst quencher.


You're right Howard, it's only that I forgot to say that you got to have the salt sea wateraround your neck, that is the way beer works so well, maybe it's not good quencher but it's not expensive and  you always makes friends.
Besides if you'are constrained to take beer after beer , at the end you get stoned and what hell matters if you are cool or hot.

By the way scorching is the word I think folks' got in mind these days in Spain, but as I always say:

worse things happen at sea. ;)

You're right Howard, it's only that I forgot to say that you got to have the salt sea wateraround your neck, that is the way beer works so well, maybe it's not good quencher but it's not expensive and  you always makes friends.
Besides if you'are constrained to take beer after beer , at the end you get stoned and what hell matters if you are cool or hot.

By the way scorching is the word I think folks' got in mind these days in Spain, but as I always say:

worse things happen at sea. ;)



Could you have beer with ice cubes? ???

I guess not Howard, but......

in here we have the beer
held in a jar as freeze as ice,
no need to use any cubes
you only got to close your eyes
and let cool "goldie" lift you right
towars the beverage paradise  :D

I hate to say it, but water is the best thing.


Who devil can know more than Satan's Dad ? I agree with you, but I guess it's a whole lot harder to get water from hell. ::)

With no AC, we sleep with 4 fans blowing on us all night long LOL

Who devil can know more than Satan's Dad ? I agree with you, but I guess it's a whole lot harder to get water from hell. ::)


It's almost impossible. We just send Hitler out to get it, he's everyone's bitch down here.

Iced Tea.


Iced tea is always great during summer.  :)

The air conditioner on full blast.

just stop by and see me at work.  it's freeeeezing in there!
we use a fan at home, though we have A/C.

I dig the heat.

just stop by and see me at work.  it's freeeeezing in there!
we use a fan at home, though we have A/C.

I dig the heat.



It must be better than a hot room. :P

It must be better than a hot room. :P


well, i keep mine off. the rest of the building is really cold and people complain all the time. we can't figure out how to stop it.  someone  came in to fix it, but it's still too cold.

The air conditioner on full blast.


I would hate to get your electric bill. :D :o

I would hate to get your electric bill. :D :o
...and the electric bill is always going up in price.

I would hate to get your electric bill. :D :o


It's expensive to live.

It's expensive to live.



it's expensive to die too. :-\\

drink everything in the fridge that's cold

it's expensive to die too. :-\\


No I meant to live in the house when you have all these bills to pay. ::)

I either sit in front of the fan,or take a dip in our little pool.

I either sit in front of the fan,or take a dip in our little pool.


no air condirioner?

I rub cold popsicles all over my body. :D

no air condirioner?
With a decent air conditioning system being approx. $2000 (not to mention installation costs), it wouldn't surprise me if many people don't have air con.  :-\\

I rub cold popsicles all over my body. :D



Damn girl let me join you,I've got ice cubes. ;)

no air condirioner?

We have a small one that my son uses,his room is upstairs and the hottest.

Damn girl let me join you,I've got ice cubes. ;)


hey. no thanks.

hey. no thanks.


Well,it was worth a try.  :(

Well,it was worth a try.  :(


HA!

drinking plenty of water.

Just wait for the following day and it will rain.

Just wait for the following day and it will rain.


Rain sometimes doesn't make the air cooler,it makes it more humid.

Rain sometimes doesn't make the air cooler,it makes it more humid.
Muggy like it is right now.

We are lucky here to have central air conditioning.  We don't run it all day just when it gets really unbearable and to make it comfortable at bed time.  Another useful thing we have is a fan in the upstairs ceiling.  As the day cools off we open the windows and switch the fan on.  It sucks cool air throughout the house.

Muggy like it is right now.


Did it rain over there?

Did it rain over there?
UK is famous for it's rain

Did it rain over there?
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm66/Phil_O-Sopher/crossing.jpg

Abbey Road in the rain

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm66/Phil_O-Sopher/crossing.jpg

Abbey Road in the rain


Has it thundered and lightning?

Has it thundered and lightning?
Not yesterday, some are expected today, but not yet arrived.

I drink plenty of water and iced tea.

I drink plenty of water and iced tea.
Taking your socks off helps to cool you down.

Taking your socks off helps to cool you down.


but not at Pathmark.

but not at Pathmark.
If you wear long trousers and shoes no one will noticed.

but not at Pathmark.

If you wear long trousers and shoes no one will noticed.
...or is there a strict dress code at Pathmark? Uniforms worn?

...or is there a strict dress code at Pathmark? Uniforms worn?


Uniform worn some cart collectors are allowed to wear shorts,no open toed sandals,sneakers worn with socks.

Uniform worn some cart collectors are allowed to wear shorts,no open toed sandals,sneakers worn with socks.
...open toed sandals, would be a health and safety issue.

wear light colored clothing.

wear light colored clothing.
That is why cricketers originally wore white when on the field, probably the same for baseball players.

That is why cricketers originally wore white when on the field, probably the same for baseball players.


What do they wear now?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2739152697_696abb41f9_m.jpg
One Day Cricket

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/2696108488_79a239f0fc_m.jpg
First Class Cricket (match that last for three to five days)

Do they drink a lot of water?

Do they drink a lot of water?
On a hot day yes. With a drinks break every hour.

stay indoors with A/C.

well, that sounds very cozy! I love sleeping in my room when it's cool...and then having to put on a blanket...that is very comfortable temps for me.


If I had my way my house would be like a meat locker. But in view of energy consumption, environmental issues ect, I have my a/c set at 75.
But I live in Fla a transplant from The northeast, I miss the cold weather.

What summer heat?  We had a weekend of awful heat and humidity, then it started raining and it hasn't stopped.    :(

What summer heat?  We had a weekend of awful heat and humidity, then it started raining and it hasn't stopped.    :(


Yesterday It came down in sheets and torrents with heavy rain and wind gusts,today it was 64 degrees in the morning with comfortable humidity,doesn't feel like a summer morning.