We're all melting!
It may not be national news in the US, but the UK has been experiencing a massive heat wave the past week. Apparently, London was the hottest city in Europe, and Thursday the record was broken for the hottest day in July--ever--and records go back to the 1700s! I've actually been enjoying being outside in the sunshine and heat - as I know it's so rare over here. It's the inside I can't deal with.My flat, which doesn't get much ventilation, has been 31.5C degrees when I get home from work (89F) and leaving the windows open and fans on all night, allows it to drop only to a balmy 30C (86F). The city just can't cope with the heat. Schools are closing, and they're having to put special gravel on the roads because they're melting. I didn't actually believe this, until one of my heels got stuck in the pavement. Ewwww....!
This is all somehow tolerable (except when I'm blow-drying my hair), but the journey to/from work has been completely miserable. Everyone is quite-literally sweating buckets, arriving to work drenched. I'm not exaggerating here. I go to meetings, and everyone's apologizing that they smell.
I thought that maybe I should try taking a bus to work instead instead of the underground tube--until I saw this headline on a reputable London newspaper: 52-degrees on buses; 47C on tubes! Not being very good at my Celsius-to-Fahrenheit conversion, I was a bit scared to actually look that up. Unfortunately, I just did:
47C = 117F
52C = 126F
As someone at work pointed out, 'They wouldn't even transport cattle at those temperatures!' Enough said...
posted by Eleanor @ 11:35 am
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