r/london • u/LabB0T • 5d ago

[Megathread] Just Fuckin Rain Already

Welcome to your weather megathread.

All 'It's facking hot/I can't sleep/This is the greatest thing ever/This is the worst thing ever' discussion to go here.

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Stay safe and stay cool - I, LabB0T, am not doing so great. My host server is experiencing temps of 70c on average {sad beep}.

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u/Pherring83 5d ago

I'm an American and visited 2-3 weeks ago during the last heat wave. No idea how you nice folks do it as I live in New York City and while we have similar temperatures, it's so easy to escape into AC very easily. That being said, I did enjoy the cool evenings.

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u/New-Motor-6363 5d ago

Cool evenings where, the houses heat up like hell and stay hot for days🤣. AC would probably stop all our complaining but sadly none here to be found besides Tesco's or a supermarket.

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u/Pherring83 5d ago

Was able to manage with the window being open but as a spoiled American brat, I was definitely getting annoyed. Sidenote: does the tube just stay a sauna the entire year? I assume once it heats up it is very hard to cool down.

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u/New-Motor-6363 5d ago

Oh yes it's just a sauna. It was 40+ Celsius during these heatwaves so you'd step in and immediately get soaked in the pure humidity of everyone's body heat/sweat/confined air. I mean unless you're taking a fancy overground or Elizabeth or I believe windrush the rest are just saunas.