Anyone ever been in unbearable heat?

[vernon]

I was in Rhodes, the town of Lindos which is generally warmer than the rest of the Island due to how it sits shielded by the rocky coves. Gorgeous place but was a heat wave & some days hit 45. I'm only fair skinned & 10 mins out with sun cream on & I had horrible heat rash all over. On a morning you opened the apartment door & a blast of dry heat would smack you in the face. I think we should have gone a few months earlier or later as it spoiled the holiday.

I stayed in Lindos four or five years ago. It was a wonderful place but totally unbearable because of the heat. I never set foot in the sea and would get up for a walk at 06:00 making sure that I was back by 08:00. I remained indoors until 20:00 and had the air conditioning on full power all day. My wife and kids loved the heat. I loved the solitude but I could have done that at home for a lot less money.

 

[Saluki]

Darwin, Austalia. Only for a couple of hours where we changed flights. The walls of the buildings were too hot to touch.

Lived there! I didn't cycle on hot days. In the cool season the temp drops right down to about 25 degrees. You can tell the real locals as they put a sweater on as its too cold for a tee shirt
The humidity in the 'build up' is interesting to say the least. Its quite common for people to 'go troppo' with the heat.

 

[Summerking]

my pennys worth is that I was born in Zambia and never noticed the heat, even though the high plains of central Zambia where a furnace, never knew any different , then we came to England in 77' and have been frozen since

 

[PaulB]

Just lost 5lbs by the simple expedient of running 4.5 miles. Running here, necessary though it may be to feed an addiction, is more penance than pleasure. To lose 10lbs, do the same thing at midday. Why don't they suggest that at Slimmer's World?

 

[alicat]

Yep, Finchley in June is pretty unbearable

Snap. Lichfield has been very cold for the time of year today. I'm thinking of putting a cardy on.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I can't cope with heat. In France last time, it got to about 35 one day and I was really suffering. Even the warm spell we had here a couple of weeks back was on the edge of making me lethargic.

After I had my chemo, a side effect was that I felt the cold really easily, so 35 was just getting pleasantly warm to me! I still don't mind heat now as I have a good idea of what I can actually tolerate, and have been known to work happily in 100+ degree heat. That said, I have never been to Arizona, The Death Valley or any of these other furnace type places though, and it only heat I like, NOT the sun as I burn stupidly easily.

I stayed in Lindos four or five years ago. It was a wonderful place but totally unbearable because of the heat. I never set foot in the sea and would get up for a walk at 06:00 making sure that I was back by 08:00. I remained indoors until 20:00 and had the air conditioning on full power all day. My wife and kids loved the heat. I loved the solitude but I could have done that at home for a lot less money.

When I was a kid, we used to have neighbours who went to Lanzarote (or as they called it *adopts a mocking, strong Glasgow accent* Lanza-ro'y) every year and they said that they only went out at night because it was too hot during the day time, which they then duly complained about!

They obviously loved it, going back year after year, but, to me, if its too hot to go out during the day, then maybe, just maybe, a little bit of imagination could have been used to find somewhere else that would have been more bearable!
Of course, they may have had a timeshare apartment or similar, I don't know, but anyway, complaining about it all as they did, they always seemed utterly daft to me!

 

[Hacienda71]

I hate heat with humidity. Suffered from heat exhaustion in Brazil when traveling through Rio state and the daytime temperature hit over 47 degrees with high humidity. Ended up sitting on the floor of a bus station with no energy at all.

 

[colly]

After I had my chemo, a side effect was that I felt the cold really easily, so 35 was just getting pleasantly warm to me! I still don't mind heat now as I have a good idea of what I can actually tolerate, and have been known to work happily in 100+ degree heat. That said, I have never been to Arizona, The Death Valley or any of these other furnace type places though, and it only heat I like, NOT the sun as I burn stupidly easily.



When I was a kid, we used to have neighbours who went to Lanzarote (or as they called it *adopts a mocking, strong Glasgow accent* Lanza-ro'y) every year and they said that they only went out at night because it was too hot during the day time, which they then duly complained about!

They obviously loved it, going back year after year, but, to me, if its too hot to go out during the day, then maybe, just maybe, a little bit of imagination could have been used to find somewhere else that would have been more bearable!
Of course, they may have had a timeshare apartment or similar, I don't know, but anyway, complaining about it all as they did, they always seemed utterly daft to me!

Went to Lanzarote one summer and arrived during the night. I work up early and opened the doors onto the balcony. I couldn't believe it.

I thought we had shipped up on a piece of burnt toast.

 

[Herr-B]

Hottest I've known the temp of was 57 C inside a dark green tent on Thumrait airfield in Oman operating a radio - roughly 30 minute shifts in there before going out in the sun to cool down. There have been lots of other hot times where I've not known the temp.

Coldest was - 29C

 

[MarkF]

Yup, been to a few of those desert towns not far from Pheonix. Tucson, Yuma etc the heat was unbearable. However the worst I have experienced is Death Valley. Boy when you opened the car door it was as if you had opened an oven door that had been cooking on max for hours on end. It's so hot there that there are signs that recommend you switch the car air conditioning off to stop the car overheating.

Memories. In Yuma in '89, I swam in a motel pool with people watching aghast, it was hot to me but cold to them! A few weeks later I was using a drive-away car through death valley, a Chevy Corsica with no air -con, I wound down the windows and stuck my arm on the door, cool as. A few hours after I found out that that was very silly thing to do.

It was 42-44c in Seville this time last year, it was great, a dry heat, I loved it.

 

[Fnaar]

Not sure how hot it was, or if humidity is usual/unusual there, but I was in Washington DC once for work, and it was so humid, I honestly could not move without breaking into sweat. It was really horrible, cos I was there to do a job, and I must've looked like a sweaty git. My shirt was dripping.

 

[Lance Jack]

Used these sometimes in Afghan, http://www.amazon.co.uk/BCB-CL085S-...id=1371325823&sr=8-3&keywords=cooling+scarves 42 degrees sometimes and then you are wearing and carrying your kit on top of that heat. That and dust storms and freezing temperatures at night.

 

[Canrider]

I am in Phoenix, Arizona for working reasons and it is EXTREMELY unpleasant.

Yeah, but it's a dry heat...a friend is working in Durham, North Carolina. I ran the humidex calculation for her 2-3 days ago and worked out she probably should avoid breathing for the day to avoid heat exhaustion...

 

[Globalti]

Dubai in a heatwave when even the locals were complaining, I think it was the mid forties. It got down to a chilly 33c at night. Next after that was probably a town in NE Nigeria called Maidugari, near Lake Chad, in a crappy hotel with no AC. But you get used to it.

I often wonder how the guys in Afghanistan must manage with all the kit and body armour.

 

[Doseone]

Crossing from RSA in to Namibia late in the afternoon the border guard complained it was over 50 degrees. Although that was stinking hot I don't remember suffering too much because we'd been in Africa a while and were acclimatised.