79°F "Heat Wave"

So do people just not understand that temperature tolerance is a limited thing based on your climate and any deviations can feel significant?

No, they do not, and most of them aren't willing to understand, either.
People, or at least NT people, with higher temperature tolerance are almost always assholes about it - I have weird heat sensitivity, I suspect on account of my Autism, and I only stopped getting constant shit for it once I basically entirely stopped talking to NTs.
The people in this thread are just seizing on an excuse to shit on people they perceive as weaker, or an excuse to shit on the English as if they are actually inherently evil just by existing. Or both.
- It's an byproduct of this site's podcast fandom origin. Some people don't understand that Chapo's "bullying is cool" bit is comedic irony aimed at wealthy journalists and politicians on twitter who never actually experience bullying and just have no context for seeing negative feedback to their broadly unpopular opinions.
  It's also just common regional chauvinism. The same people here who say stuff like "just open a window dipshit, it's worse where I live and I think it's comfortable!" will go on to lament the seriousness of climate change elsewhere, then go right on to another post about low temperatures in winter and comment something like "just put on a sweater dipshit, it's worse where I live and I think it's comfortable!"
- Ableism is, unfortunately, extremely common on hexbear.
  I think that the shitting on the British is just overcompensation for having been really into Doctor Who and Sherlock in their Tumblr phase. I'm Australian, so I do love to insult the British, but people just overdo it.
- It is interesting to see high heat and associated sweating as quite a powerful stimulus which often causes overstimulation particularly in people with neuro divergence. So sometimes it's not even a heat tolerance problem but an overstimulation problem which NTs seem to have a hard time understanding.
  Also like others have said, perception of temperature changed is largely dependent on where your current baseline is.
- We used to be able to shit on the English, now we can't because of woke ☹️
- shit on the English as if they are actually inherently evil just by existing
  
  Death to America
Not to mention that just from person to person within the same climate there are significant differences, probably genetic at their core. Two people can be sitting in the exact same spot and one will be burning up and the other freezing cold and neither of them are "wrong"
- Part of it can also be if a person has had heat injuries before too. After you have one, you become more sensitive and vulnerable to heat. I know, the I've had a couple... :-(
- Explains why the Ac and heater keep turning on/off at work every 5 minutes.

Tbf if thats higher than the infrastructure can support it will cause problems even if thats not that hot. Like they dont have AC anywhere. All the infrastructure is made to keep heat in because it was so cold

IIRC they're also not built to keep the heat in because like 5000 people died due to cold weather in 2022/23. Seems like the UK has had the copper wire ripped out of the walls slightly faster than other imperialist countries.
- The UK has the worst housing stock in western Europe. Homes are not only prohibitively expensive, they are also smaller, less energy efficient and in worse repair than in neighbouring countries.
you don't need AC for 26C unless you're a literal snowflake
Death to America
- 26C outdoors with no AC and poorly designed buildings with bad ventilation can easily mean 30C+ indoors
  UK housing is dogshit, and isn’t largely designed in a way to get a good cross breeze and natural cooling
Even then, 26 C is not particulary hot. That's a normal summer here in Germany, where we also barely have any AC.
Dress lightly, keep shades down and windows closed over the day and you have it cool inside. Most european buildings keep the heat out and the warmth in, depending on the time of the year. Because most of europe has continental climate, relatively hot summers and relatively cold winters.
- That works great until you need to cook dinner, or use the computer, or any other appliance that produces a lot of heat...
  It's not unlivable, sure, but it makes it hard to be productive with anything. I had broken AC for a month in the US South once, wouldn't wish it on anyone
- dress lightly
  The Brit didn't understand that.
Insulation works both ways. If it's hot outside, just keep the windows closed and the house will stay cooler. Open them at night after it's cooled down.
I would simply open a window and turn on a fan.
79 is basically room temperature
- 79 outside with no AC and badly designed buildings with no natural cooling can easily mean 90+ inside
  It’s fine as long as all you need to do is sit outside in the shade, but if you have to do anything it becomes a problem
Like they dont have AC anywhere.
26C/79F is pleasantly cool weather. It's 30C/86F and humid in the room I'm sitting in right now, probably warmer outside, and this is still pleasantly warm though starting to edge a bit close to the point where it becomes uncomfortably warm.
Like 26C/79F is "this is the result of the AC running until it's starting to get chilly and gets turned off" temperature.
Finland is the same way and gets to 26C every summer. We just open the windows and use fans

You eat toasted bread between two untoasted pieces of bread.

Sugar is too spicy.

You'll literally die if you don't get a "pint" in you daily.

Your red and look like a bulldog.

You are English.

I'll defend the islanders and their weak constitutions.

At high enough humidity you can't cool down from sweat, so a 88°F/31°C wetbulb temperature can be lethal. Add in sunlight, combining radiation with convection, which gives the extra 9°F/5°C needed to kill you. Humidity and direct sunlight can make 79° lethal, especially when combined with physical exertion.

It's not just the gout and aristocratic inbreeding that's killing them I swear!

The weirdly low dangerous wetbulb temperatures are actually arrived at with extremely low humidity and a very high dry bulb temperature. As long as the dry bulb temperature is below body temperature you can still passively cool especially with moving air, although obviously it gets much worse the closer both numbers get to body temperature. A dry bulb that's 20 degrees below body temperature will always be cool regardless of how efficient sweating given the humidity.
- I'm aware, but you're ignoring solar gain. A dry bulb in shade will read differently than a dry bulb in direct Sun; sunlight can easily add enough heat to raise the dry bulb from 79°F to 88°F because you're getting heat from radiation in addition to convection.
  Then add in physical activity and poor air flow, add in people unprepared to dress appropriately and poor hot-climate infrastructure, it's entirely possible for 79°F to become dangerous - especially to vulnerable populations.

For those wondering why this is bad in the UK, it's currently 3am and the humidity is 85%.

We have a very wet country. These temperatures are very difficult to cool down in with this kind of humidity.

Jaysus wept on such an accursed country...
Comrade, that amount of humidity is normal in many parts of the world.

The British have colonized parts of the world where people work in these conditions on the daily, but they didn't take any knowledge of how to live and work comfortably in this kind of heat back home with them because the British solution was "make the locals do it", hence the Schadenfreude.

Bro our houses are built like ovens

Sure but these are not dangerous temperatures. Go outside
- How does that help if you work in a kitchen?
Bro I wish that were the case as that would imply proper insulation. From my experience they're draughty fabrications which use too much energy to keep warm in the winter and are wholly unprepared for dealing with anything above 25°C.
Truth is, just more affordable housing please. And if you're being generous, more forward thinking affordable housing, please.

i would simply not wear a sweater

But gram made it just for them. It's the third doctor, Jon Pertwee, and the mark 2.07 Tardis.

lmao are english people ok? it is 95 degrees outside where I am as we speak and i dont consider this unusual in the least

Also 95 here, but after visiting the UK during one of their “heat waves” I’d rather be here in Florida at 95 than the UK at 80.
Here we’ve built our society around air conditioning, I move from climate controlled space to climate controlled space spending as little time out in the 95 degrees as possible. For the short time it’s nice outside, our houses are largely built to encourage a cross-breeze from one end to the other.
In the UK even though it wasn’t as hot outside there was no relief. Nowhere had AC. Not the houses, not the businesses, not the busses or trains or stations. All the buildings were made to keep air and heat in, so everywhere was 90 degrees inside. They barely even had ice for drinks most places.
And to add on top of that, people there aren’t acclimated to the heat. I keep it at 78 degrees inside my apartment, but when I first moved here I would’ve been dying at 78 indoors.
- You’re giving British people way too much credit. Plenty of places like NYC you do not move between climate controlled spaces all of the time and the vast majority do not do so in a climate controlled vehicle, PLUS NYC can be just as humid as the UK

I feel sympathy for the people of TERF Island when temperatures are genuinely too high because the infrastructure is actually not built to handle temperatures like 32C (90F).

But 26C is straight up nice day outside/just open your windows and dress lightly weather. Actually my room temp in the US right now with no AC is warmer than this and humid and I have no fan running lol.

Apparently the stiff upper lip melts at room temperature.

26C is straight up nice day outside
if you're used to living in a sun scorched hell maybe, as a north easterner USian anything close to 80F is extremely uncomfortable without AC
- Also an inhabitor of the northeast US, and 80F isn’t exactly comfortable but it’s not what the anglos make it out to be

It's not the heat it's the humidity. Also we don't really do AC in our homes.

How the hell do so many of you not understand that some people actually have work manual labor outside in the sun?

"sTaY iN tHe sHadE aNd tUrN oN a fAn lol"

people have to do that all over the world, including in places where 79F is a nice cool day. British who can't handle a warm day are a joke, I grew up laboring hard in Egypt. Guess what, we didn't have AC
This is the weather in my birthplace right now, and it's not a "heat wave" just normal temperature. It doesn't even get below 79F at night during lows half the time! What a joke Britain!

Great thread to prove my theory that Americans aren't actually real people, but just homonculi built with an inherent compulsive desire to be the greatest white people on the planet, and absolutely no restrictions on being dumb assholes about it.

ya nobody on hexbear ever has shit to say about americans
as an Egyptian, this thread reads like two types of milky white people arguing whether doritos nacho cheese or cool ranch is spicier

Homie I live in the South and you wouldn’t catch me calling 79° comfortable on any given day, except perhaps a dry day.

- South United States.
  I'm from Caracas and our weather was MILD compared to the dogshit climate I've had to endure in the U.S
That’s tonight’s overnight low temp where I live

No need to worry. $500,000,000 will be sent to ukraine to solve this problem

it's june and 79 F is still higher than the average high of july, the hottest month

but yea only cracker problems, places, languages, ethnicities, foods exist

- There's really no point comparing long run averages
  ...yea there is because that's how we know global warming exists
  It's not a heatwave but it's still warmer than the average weather there from 50 years ago
  one could question whether the headline was purposefully worded that way to produce more climate skepticism

Its fucking consistently 40 c where I am. Fuckin oi bruvs

Remember when we mocked people who mocked Texas for not being able to handle a mild freeze?

No

26C "heatwave" 😂

Bitch, my AC is set to 28C right now, and the outside temp is 38C. It's the coolest day of the week, the other day it was 40C IN THE FUCKING SHADES! Flip flops are literally melting under your feet as you walk on the sidewalk.

If that's wet bulb temp, that's annoying weather to work in. Just sweat and humidity.

Wet bulb pertains to the low temperature being too high, not the highs. It is getting cool enough at night in Britain that it’s nowhere close to wet bulb
- Ah, fair. I always thought it was base temp plus humidity.

embarrassing country, fucking christ i hate england

Death to America

How in the world did the British have so many tropical colonies

Slaves
- Yeah but somebody still had to give the orders without keeling over and dying of heatstroke on a mild spring day

The empire really has fallen.

Ngl i get sweaty and uncomfortable in like 20°c so i get it

We're going to cook alive aren't we?

No get out of the oven you'll be fine it's 80f have a chilled glass of the beverage of your choice and wear a hat

Different strains of bacteria burn off at different temperaturesI guess

There are winters days that hot in South Africa, with the minimum temperature dropping below close to freezing/0°C on the same day. And most people don't have air conditioning or well insulated houses, and life goes on. It's not that big a deal. Now summer on the other hand, where the minimum temperature can be above 20°C, those are painful, especially as most don't have air conditioning.

Temperatures in my place is double of that I'd legit love to have a 26 degree heatwave.

Good thing the king has resumed his duties. He can now address the important things.

What's one feel like?

Meta comment, but search "uk heatwave 79 degree" on Yandex...

The weather in my part of Europe is absolute dogshit now, it doesn't get above 18C, it's windy and it fucking rains all the time. Those Terf Island ingrates don't know how good they have it with their 26C "heat wave".

In which region do you live? Northern Europe?

Bit idea: Flying to the UK in the middle of a 79F heatwave and asking, "don't you feel a bit chilly" to rando Brits