Even though I had a quadruple bypass 20 years ago, I used to really enjoy the heat, working and holidaying in very hot places, some dry heat, some steamy, backpacking etc etc.
Two years ago, times began to change, 6 heart attacks since then, the heat is now my enemy.
Heart failure and fluid restrictions do not go well with very hot days.
I have to be careful and monitor my readings all the time.
I can still lead a good life, just less carefree.
I will not be going backpacking in the jungles of Northern Thailand again anytime soon.
Brighton beach is fine however with minimum precautions.
I didn’t check the humidity yesterday when the temperature was 36C Bruce, but I’ve just had a look now at 8:15 am and 25C and it’s around 30%…I’ll keep an eye on it later.
That really made me laugh. You used a scale called Fahrenheit, named after the German scientist Gabrial Fahrenheit. German (well born in what is now Poland but at the time part of the states that became Germany). But deffo not English.
Also not a very convenient scale as the zero reference point is bizarrely negative 18 deg C. And its difficult to find logic to anything else in this scale. What would be much better is a scale that starts at zero for the freezing point of water and has 100 as the boiling point (at sea level). Isn’t that much more convenient and usable? And it could then be adopted at the International measure for temperature - not British, or European, or American, but international. You know, IS measures that everyone uses?
UK adopted the Celsius scale back in 1961, so that is now the English measurement.
Fahrenheit is no more “English” than Celsius!
The Fahrenheit scale was created by Daniel Fahrenheit, a Scientist who was born in Poland with German parents. By the time he had created the Fahrenheit scale in the 1700s, he had moved to the Dutch Republic.
There’s nothing English about the origins of the Fahrenheit scale.
Britain just decided to borrow his standard scale of measuring temperature, despite its awkward numbers, because they didn’t have anything better at the time.
A couple of decades later, Anders Celsius, a Swedish Astronomer created a scale based on the freezing point and boiling point of water, which makes much more sense to measure weather temperatures.
I don’t understand why it took Britain so long to adopt it as our standard measure.
I think the only country that clings on to Fahrenheit now is USA - most of the world has adopted the Celsius scale as the standard.
Definitely!!
If I climbed up to the top of a nearby mountain (if you see what I mean, bearing in mind there aren’t any!) I’d be able to see the Isle of Wight!
We’ve put a couple of soup dishes of water out principally for the birds but actually for anything that wants water. There’s already been several squirrels down and all sorts of birds ranging from wood pigeons to - well I’m not too good on bird types.
Ooh that’s a good idea, I might do that! I tried to rescue a bumblebee today that was lying at the bus stop on my return from the vets. I put a boiled sweet in some water, shook it up and gave it a drop or two to drink. It looked like it was grateful, but the bus came so I couldn’t keep an eye on it. I hope it was ok
Gosh Mags, please take care of yourself…that is really draining heat I see the temperature so far (in the west of scotland) for next week is next Monday when it will be expected to rise to 24C…what a huge difference for a small Island!
It is raining though…again.
I see the temperature so far (in the west of scotland) for next week is next Monday when it will be expected to rise to 24C…what a huge difference for a small Island!