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Zombie 20
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Man oh man, is it hot over in the states today. I saw the uk was getting heated up as well, so my heart goes out to you asweome folks, stay in the AC! I wonder if our boys and girls in Canadia felt that today and we had a puny little storm to cool it down which didn't work. Anyway, thoughts or commets or perhaps funny stories to stay cool today? Mine involved lounging in the ac with my swimsuit on and a 2-liter of pepsi.

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Bring on the heat I say - it's cloudy where I am at the moment, but I don't want typical English weather ruining my holiday next week. We haven't had that much of a heat wave yet in this part of English, it's been hot, wet and muggy - but hey it's brightening up.

We've had a couple of cool storms - heard that there was a tornado locally - no damage as far as I know.

As far as staying cool, no funny stories here, just an open window and shorts.

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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 13:03
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As much as us brits complain about the weather, most of the time heat waves are a nightmare for us - we tend not to have AC, and when we do, well it tends to be horrible wall mounted units that smell funny and don't do a great job.

I mean, when it get's too hot my office is hell basically, the AC is at one end of the office, and at the other end we have 2 servers, 4 PC's, 3 monitors, a massive printer, and 3 UPS boxes - creates quite a bit of heat that the AC just ignores.


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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 13:15 Edited at: 28th Jun 2007 13:42
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Unless its 40 + degrees Celsius and you sweat leaving the shower, its girl town
Im in board shorts and wife beaters in winter over here in bake town

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Yeah, 99.99% of people in this country (UK) don't have AirCon in their houses. We just don't need it. Occasionally we bake for a few weeks when the summer is particular hot, but we rarely have stonking hot summers that bring the temp inside higher than 25C or so. That might change if you believe in global warming though.


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thats an australian winter day, however its drops to 9 dc in the night, enough for a jumper or a cardie

I prefer the stinking cold with this Norwegian blood however, so does my computer studio
I hate the perpetual rain however it gets stuff done.

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Quote: "Unless its 40 + degrees Celsius and you sweat leaving the shower, its girl town"
Yep. Just getting used to it here. At the end of the day it's not as if haven't been on holiday to a hot place before (and I worked in Dubai for 3 months from August when it is nutter hot), but never lived full time in a hot country. Is nice. Plus having AC is good too. As mentioned above, in the UK AC at home is almost unheard of (never ever seen any AC in someone's home in the UK). Winter here was like almost constant really nice spring days in the UK, and upto British summer weather (well, a hell of a lot better in January than *now* in the UK anyways).

As for global warming, I heard it is going to get colder in the UK (ice caps melting) and it will end up a tropical rain forest type climate. ie. very very humid. Yuck...

Personally though I love doing my job as a programmer in T-shirt and shorts

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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 13:49 Edited at: 28th Jun 2007 14:04
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Quote: "it's been hot, wet and muggy - but hey it's brightening up"

What ya talkin about? People are dieing from floods in the the UK at the moment!

Quote: "One of the flood-related deaths occurred at Hessle, near Hull, when Michael Barnett, 28, got stuck in a drain.

In Sheffield, Peter Harding, 68, died in floodwater after leaving his car.

In a separate incident in the city, 14-year-old Ryan Parry was killed when he was swept away in the River Sheaf at Millhouses.

At Pershore, Worcestershire, county court judge Eric Dickinson, 68, was found dead in his submerged car.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6247870.stm



It didn't even make the front page of most broadsheets, I guess news north of London don't matter to much

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I much prefer the cold, because when it's cold, you can go put on a jumper, put the heating on, burn some furniture, or just go to a nice warm pub. When it's too warm, well you just have to kinda suffer it, eating ice lollies is about our only defense!.

I live with my brother, he likes it toasty so he always has the heating on, I hate it, makes me tired and irritable (more than usual I mean). Weather is great, a really bad storm can flood entire villages in England, and that just cracks me up!. I'd love to wake up and have to canoe to the shops. Apparantly the highlands are flooded, I asked the obvious question of course - ''If the highlands are flooded, how in the blue hell are we not under water!''.
Yesterday it hailed for like 2 minutes straight then went on to the hottest day we've had in ages, I like mad weather like that as long as I don't get caught out in it.


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Yeah lol here in the Netherlands we haven't seen so much rain in two weeks for a long long time.


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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 14:15
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Quote: "I like mad weather like that as long as I don\'t get caught out in it."


Hehehe..I was out biking once and I got caught in a freak thunderstorm which scared the crap out of me. I was hiding in a ditch by the road and not five minutes later it is a clear sky with birds chirping, that was the day I truly began to believe in the wrath of god. Totally serious about that.

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I made a short video to sum up June in the UK. make sure you have the sound on for the full-on depressing effect...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwRgoUTiBEs

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The weather sucks.

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Hehe, quite strange music to play while showing us some crappy lawn furniture (no offense!) and a faux mole .

Thing is, any brit looking at the video would be able to tell that was a british summer time, we've redefined what summer actually means over the last few years.


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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 14:33 Edited at: 28th Jun 2007 14:33
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Quote: "we've redefined what summer actually means over the last few years"
Apparently not. From what I've read something like 20 of the best summers in the last 100 years have come in the last 25 years in the UK. The remaining 5 were pretty high up too. Some people reckon that the classic British summer (that everyone thinks of when they think of UK weather) has now come back in the last few years. ie. it was always this crap, but we didn't realise as we pretty much grew up with the good weather. Even in 1995, when I moved to near London, I remember the summers being a hell of a lot better.

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Heat wave indeed, it was 33C the other day (remarkably the same day i had to go to the forest to cut up wood for the winter). That's 20 degrees more than i'm used to, lol.

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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 14:53 Edited at: 28th Jun 2007 14:54
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I bet the weather is soooo boring in Cyprus, Dazzag, you would have nothing to talk about over 11am tea and cakes

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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 14:56 Edited at: 28th Jun 2007 14:57
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Quote: "you would have nothing to talk about over 11am tea and cakes"
Talk about yourself English boy. For us Welsh boyos it's welsh teacakes (two birds and all that) and a pint. Then off to sweep the chimneys or a hard day down pit. And then a bit of a sing along with the choir in the valleys Oh, and we don't have time for your English ways with your top hats and stupid taches...

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When they measure how good the summer is, I'm guessing they go by the highest temperature - but when we only have 2 weeks of decent weather compared to 3 months, I call that a crappy summer .

I remember as a kid, these summers that lasted the whole school holidays - it was nice every day, and it often snowed at the right time too - seems these days our summer is half as long, and winter is getting later and later. I'd love to have a good couple months of heavy snow, I mean there's places to ski in Scotland, longer colder winters could do wonders for us!.


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Actually you would be slightly wrong about the weather. Close though. It's not all scorchio, butchos butchos gali, chris waddle, scorchio etc. Now and again we get the odd thunderstorm, and it can get quite windy at times. Plus at the minute we are in a heatwave from Greece. So instead of the usual 30-35C weather for this time of the year (June), we have been getting upto 50C for a few days (I love AC...). Apparently people have died and everything. Then we had some powercuts because of an electric union strike.... Must buy ice...

Amusingly when it was "cold" at about 22-25C (back in April) we went to the top of mount Olympus (not *that* one). There is a bloody ski slope up there and it was like being in Austria or something (I have pics to prove it)! Then down to the beach for afternoon. Tops!

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in England its boiling

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What, the tea?

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In Essex, some days are sunny, other days are cloudy, and there is occasionally a thunderstorm.

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Quote: "I made a short video to sum up June in the UK. make sure you have the sound on for the full-on depressing effect..."


Those little terracotta dolls are creepy, I could so picture a horror movie with them.

Was warm the last 2 days (85-90 with 50%+ humidity), otherwise this summer has been great, I have not turned on my AC yet.

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No sun where I am. Hope it stays this way in wales... I love the rain, it's wet...

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Quote: "thats an australian winter day, however its drops to 9 dc in the night, enough for a jumper or a cardie "


9C? except for the last couple of years that used to be the UK summer temp
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Except for the scorching heat heave last year

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Quote: "I wonder if our boys and girls in Canadia felt that today"


Canadia? Never heard of it.

We have been getting showers pretty regularly here--- just a few days ago we had a really crackin' loud thunderstorm. It was great! And the rain drops were massive. It was the first time I heard rain where it sounded like the water was inside the condo.

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Quote: "Those little terracotta dolls are creepy, I could so picture a horror movie with them"


Mmmm...I could take them out and film them in really weird places, pretend I'm all artistic and eccentric

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Personally I love steamy hot summers with big thunderstorms and snowy yet dry (like the air is so cold it's not humid) winters. Humidity in the air in winter is unpleasant to me, plus everything is wet and slushy. So, frigid winters, sweltering summers (when you're not doing any real physical work anyhow) = best.

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ANY kind of doll could be used in a horror movie. Seriously, dolls really do scare me!

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Toronto had some rain today, other parts got the heat. Some idiot left their baby in the car and it died from the 100f heat.

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Winnipeg is extremely hot at the moment, wouldn't survive without AC. We also had a tornado watch is rather odd in these parts. Otherwise, the weather is great here in Canadia
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just be happy oyou don't live in las vegas, NV. it's freakin hot as crap. max it gets in teh summer is around 120 .

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Quote: "Seriously, dolls really do scare me!"
Do you mean like those creepy victorian china dolls? Those things like totally freak me out...

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It was quite warm here yesterday, still a bit early to tell yet though what the weather will be bringing us today, though the sun is quite shiny.

I personally hate AC. I'd rather sit there with an ice lolly rather than some stinky thing drying out my eyes.

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Haha, 33C isn't a heat-wave.

It's been cold here lately: about 15C in the day because of the wind.
Like indi said, doesn't get much below 8-9C at night.

I am on the coast, and we get nice warm weather from sea, but I spend about 3/5ths of the year inland on the other side of the Mountains, and there it gets to about 4-5C at night (just before I left a week ago, about half an hour away, it snowed, so it would have been touching 0C).

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Quote: "I personally hate AC. I'd rather sit there with an ice lolly rather than some stinky thing drying out my eyes."

Something's wrong with it then....But anyway, come over here to AZ, and you'll have a different idea of AC. You jump in your car, and it's like 140 inside. I live in northern Arizona, and still it's getting around 105-106. I'd hate to be in Phoenix right now! I went down there in December, and we still had to use AC.

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Well it's probably better than sh*tty Glasgow, I'll tell you that

Though VanB made a good point, it's good when it's cold because you can warm up.. when it's too warm you're screwed.

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Today's gonna be 93F and its most likely gonna be humid... sucks for me cause I have to go to work and do landscaping stuff. I'd love it if I could stay home today and just go swimming and stuff.

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Quote: "Today's gonna be 93F"
Same here. Just nice if you ask me. I have to program in it (and not the fun type) though so A/C after a while. Was over 120F in some areas (was about 113F in my town) when it was a heatwave 2 weeks ago. Heh, feels like talking to my parents when talking about Fahrenheit.

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It was hot in Essex Today, woo It was cloudy and rainy during the second half of June and finally, summers here! Also, only 8 and a half days of school left!


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It has rained everyday for at least a little bit for the past month and a half where I live (Texas), and I'm not kidding. Before that we had about 6 months where it didn't rain at all causing a drought and water restrictions. I think we got our wish for rain .

Quote: "Also, only 8 and a half days of school left!"

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I'm not taking summer school, that's just when school breaks up for the holidays where I am The summer holidays start around July 20th and end in early september for me and the same applies for the rest of the schools in my area, probably the whole of Britain but I am not entirely sure.

May 23 ?! That's two months before we break up for the holidays , you're very lucky in America, when do you return to school?


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Quote: "May 23 ?! That's two months before we break up for the holidays , you're very lucky in America, when do you return to school?"

Mid August . I thought British Schools got out mid June, not mid July


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It rained through our holiday last week and well it's bloody sunny this week, typical - though it's nice to go out in it and chill out rather than locking myself in my room at a computer screen, though I did do that today for half of it.

Quote: "I thought British Schools got out mid June, not mid July"


Year 11's and upper sixths (year 13's) do in mid June or before (Some year 13's at the end of June, I did my last exam on 27th) basically when their exams are finished and they don't have to return to school ever, except for year 11 who want to stay in sixth form, but they can wait around until September. Lower sixths stay on after their exams until mid-July.

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Quote: "you're very lucky in America, when do you return to school?"
I think you will find that is pretty much the rest of the world too. We get 6 weeks off school in the summer, everyone else gets like 3 months or so. Luckily if you goto Uni then they use the same sort of holiday system. Basically you only work (heh heh ) at Uni for three terms, each of which is ten weeks long (at least when I went to Uni).

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It was so hot in Toronto today (and I expect New York as well since we share the same temperatures pretty much) that overpasses were starting to break apart as the concrete / asphalt heated up.


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Quote: "overpasses were starting to break apart as the concrete / asphalt heated up"
I thought you lot (anyone in a hotter country than the UK basically...) had special tarmac that can stand the temperature? Was what I was told in Dubai after I noticed cars screech around corners at much much slower speeds than in the UK. Apparently hotter countries use this special tarmac to stop it melting (ours can melt in extreme heat, which never really happens) but it also causes cars to screech more as they go around corners, even at slow speeds. This was the explanation I got for American films having cars make amazing squeeling noises going round corners even though they look like they are going really slowly.

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