@debs64 if possible wear a wet t-shirt under your uniform. This will keep you cool for some time. If your employer keeps you at high 30 degrees in black uniform, it’s not work discipline but putting employees under health risk.
I generally wear a wet t-shirt/trousers when I have to drive the motorway in full sunshine and hot weather.
@N@"Nanny Beach" wikipedia says, During this spell of hot weather temperatures exceeded 32 °C (89.6 °F) at several weather stations within the United Kingdom every day and the town of Cheltenham had eleven, including seven successive days from 1 July - recording 35.9 °C (96.6 °F) on 3 July.[4]
It is the body temperature that counts. Beyond 35 degrees, then our body starts to react differently.
I can claim that Berlin ( Eastern European dry continental climate has more seen hot weather, and forgive me, in 1976, you were 44 years younger!
Thanks @Simone_in_Wiltshire some great tips, loving the wet curtain idea, I do the wet t shirt already, wet hat works wonders too! Ice cream in freezer, nice to have a valid excuse to eat it! We always keep all the windows open with fly screens at night and then close everything down by about 9am to cool the house down as much as possible.
Coming back on a night train from Scotland in a very hot, sealed cabin with no air flow at all, I wet a hand towel with cold water and covered my pillow with it and lay down to sleep. My God what an instant difference it made! A cool neck can make the whole body feel cool (at least if you are me).
No sarcasm from me! We went from a very cold spring. Couldn't plant my tomatoes due to very late frost to an inferno. I dont think we had but a couple of weeks of mild weather. We are scheduled to hit 106 on Monday.
I don't like being indoors even when it's 105. I overheated working outside in the garden had some mild heart palpitations. Maybe dehydration or heat exhausted. Take precautions
Been round the house drawing curtains this morning to keep the sun out, it really does help to lower the heat. I've hung thermal curtain linings for insulating against winter temperatures, and I can't see any reason why they'll not work to keep out the summer heat. I know it's a bit dismal with the curtains closed but it's only for a new days.
In any case, leaving the curtains closed matches my mood, I've managed to pick up the 'rona'
Simone,I might have been 44 years younger,BUT I was pregnant, nursing in a Nissan hut no air con,I thought that was pretty impressive. I didn't drive then either. It was shanks pony and a push bike.
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wikipedia says,
During this spell of hot weather temperatures exceeded 32 °C (89.6 °F) at several weather stations within the United Kingdom every day and the town of Cheltenham had eleven, including seven successive days from 1 July - recording 35.9 °C (96.6 °F) on 3 July.[4]
It is the body temperature that counts. Beyond 35 degrees, then our body starts to react differently.
I ♥ my garden.
In any case, leaving the curtains closed matches my mood, I've managed to pick up the 'rona'
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.