Holy wack! It's so HOT outside, how in the world do you guys handle the massive heat outside OT?

I live in Atlanta GA, AKA Hotlanta for that matter. The Temps can go as high as 95 degrees but rarely hits above 100. When it's 10:00am, all hell brakes lose, it get's hot very fast! So OT, does the heat really bother you to crank up the AC? Do you wait until the sun set's down to go outside? How are you handling this heat now that it's Summer?

Right now I'm at the beach next to the water. It's the best way, the correct way. :)

I hate anything over 75 degrees and feel like I'm being cooked in the bright sun when it's hot. I don't know how you guys down there do it.

Anything over 65 is horrible

But thank god for a car with AC, work with AC and home with AC...

Buy a big ass fan from amazon and point it in my face.

Emergency ice cream supplies :)

I'm more natural to warm weather, I prefer summer time and I can't stand cold climates. I'm southern and I adapt to heat more so then cold weather.

I'd prefer slushy drinks which also helps keeps you cool then eating ice creams.

I don't go outside on a hot day. AC and good insulation are your friends.

@davillain-: Yeah you might not get over 100 F, but you have humidity in Georgia, yeah? I remember getting off a plan in Maryland in the summer with like 98% humidity....it was honestly one of the worst experiences in my life.

Where I'm at in California, we might get a week where it skirts 100 F, but damn at least it's dry you know? I don't know if I could do humidity.

Was 97 yesterday, today it is supposed to be mid-90's again. It doesn't help that at my place of work we have hot pipes and steam-powered vessels everywhere haha.

@mrbojangles25:"It doesn't help that at my place of work we have hot pipes and steam-powered vessels everywhere haha."

Is that why you get paid the big bucks?

@davillain-: lol 109 fahrenheit is 42 celcius, even at 30 celcius (85 f) I already go bonkers, thankfully even the latter is rare over here (belgium) .

Your weather isn't weather that's atmospheric disturbance. Glad I don't live there lmao

I don't. 42°C is too hot for me.

I'm good up to about 36 with 50% or less humidity. But 20-25 with 100% and I'm finding it hard to breathe. A/C is my religion in the summer.

Drinking water and staying hydrated mostly all the time, trust me it works every time. The heat does pinch but I never feel the urge to just stay at home and do work from home.

Here in Arizona, 100F to 115F is routine. I usually do exercise, yard work, and other outdoor activities at dawn until around 9 AM. After that, I spend most of my time indoors (or in an air-conditioned car). Once the shadows grow long (eg 5 PM), I venture outside again and stay outside until I'm done with whatever I was doing.

Our house has good insulation. If I keep the windows and curtains closed, we can maintain room temperature around 78F to 82F (while it's +100F outside) all day. A ceiling fan is more than enough to keep us comfy. But, we also have central air-conditioning if we want it to be cooler.

Should the central air-conditioner go KAPUT, I have a portable one for my den. ;)

@davillain-: I hate the heat but I deal with it. I was deployed to the Strait of Hormuz for 8 months and it got up to 135 F in July. The coolest it ever got was 100 F at midnight. The humidity was awful too and it just added to the misery.

@davillain-: why not both? Slush puppies are good though.

If it gets that hot where I live in UK, I turn on the AC and stay indoors since I get hayfever. Taking hayfever tablets are great, but I get drowsy easily which don't help. This might sound dumb, but do you get hayfever in the USA? I never had hayfever when I visited China, Spain and France.

@davillain- said:

I live in Atlanta GA, AKA Hotlanta for that matter. The Temps can go as high as 95 degrees but rarely hits above 100. When it's 10:00am, all hell brakes lose, it get's hot very fast! So OT, does the heat really bother you to crank up the AC? Do you wait until the sun set's down to go outside? How are you handling this heat now that it's Summer?

C'mon, when are you guys changing to Celsius...
Anyway, it's winter here.

Its winter here, and its freezing!!!

Don't go to the West Coast basically where its dry and you'll be fine.

its getting to 0'c here and im freezing, have the fireplace going 24/7 but in summer here it hits 45'c (113f) on the regular, we dont go out between 12 and 3.

I don't go outside as much as possible.

By turning on your AC unit? Duh!

Last week Monday and Tuesday were really hot days for me. The AC stopped working so we had to get a portable AC. Those two days I slept downstairs instead of my bedroom. It was really hot and I always end up mildy night sweating. I have a fan by my side but it doesn't do much. But on Wednesday it got cooler. edit: Also , I live in Midwest so it wasn't normal.

It's 20°C here today. Feels nice.

Hop in my car, let all the windows down, put my sunroof to ventilation, and go cruising on the expressway with the wind on my face...

I will always take the summer heat over winters cold. So you will never see me complaining about how high temperatures get...

Hit triple digits in the Cali central valley this weekend. I fled to Oakland where it was 23 degrees cooler. Did some comic shopping and went out for a few beers with the wife. When we did come back home we decided it was too hot to cook so we went to our local BBQ place for dinner and more beers. Down to low 90's for the rest of the week but hitting triple digits again next weekend. Might head to Half Moon Bay or Santa Cruz to avoid that one.

aircond or soak in bath tub & drink lots of water. :) 35+ DegC is already very hot...40+ DegC holy shit..burning hot.

For those living in the California inland areas, just head to the coast if you want to cool off. They have the perpetual stratus clouds (and fog) that keeps the weather cool, usually in the 50's F and 60's F.

I lived at the Central Coast for a few years. It was so cool and cloudy/foggy during summer, I had to travel inland to get some warmer weather and clear skies.

Almost at 30 degrees Celsius in England today. Far too hot to be sat in an office :( can't wait to get home and take my trousers off, although going to see Flight of the Conchords tonight :D

I live in Kansas, I've just gotten used to the summer heat. 8 of the last 10 summers have been much hotter then average. Just the new normal. AC is a wonderful thing.

It's Winter here in Australia atm, which is nice because the last couple of Summers here in Sydney were horrible... we had days were it hit 47 degrees Celsius :(

Luckily we have a pool and AC.

Parts of Norway is having close to 30C this week. It's to damn warm. Above 25C and I struggle with it. Still I try to enjoy it while it lasts.

How can you Poms handle that sort of heat, that would be a heatwave over there... :)

Yes but Norway gets bloody cold in winter.

In my neck of the woods those temps are quite normal during the spring, fortunately the humidity is low.

air conditioning might be humankind's greatest invention.

Air Conditioning........

it is a heatwave! even in normally grey, wet manchester we've had weeks, maybe months of clear blue sky and sunshine this year. we can finally tan!

glorious weather, international football on all day every day... good times

@davillain-: For real I also live in Atlanta its ridiculous

How's your winters?

Yeah it looks to be warm in Russia too, do you think your national team will get anywhere this world cup? You arguably have the best domestic comp (EPL) but England seems to struggle at world cups.

we are the perennial under achievers in international football so decades of disappointment would say... probably not :)

but this year, with germany out and none of the traditional big hitters - argentina, brazil, spain, france etc. - really firing on all cylinders, if england were to continue the form they showed in the 6-1 against the mighty panama (and it's a big if) then... who knows.

tonight vs belgium will be a good barometer of where they're at and whether the post-panama giddyness is warranted

If I can, I just stay inside with the AC. If I'm outside, pretty much SOL. Hopefully, I have water with me.

That's how it feels in Houston... In December! Ok ok... More like May - Oct.

To me 60's and 70's degrees F is the sweet zone. One of the many reasons October is my favorite month in Pennsylvania USA.

Ginger people ain't made for this.

Easy, if I'm not playing sports or swimming I'm in an air conditioned environment

@heathen75: I live in central valley too. Jumping 11 degree from today to tomorrow then triple figures over weekend ... honestly though, so far, this summer seems much cooler than previous years

I don't handle it very well, thankfully I live in the PNW.

Lol I live in Athens(pretty close to atl) and yeah its bad.

@davillain- said:

I live in Atlanta GA, AKA Hotlanta for that matter. The Temps can go as high as 95 degrees but rarely hits above 100. When it's 10:00am, all hell brakes lose, it get's hot very fast! So OT, does the heat really bother you to crank up the AC? Do you wait until the sun set's down to go outside? How are you handling this heat now that it's Summer?