Could someone please...

[frualeydis]

...turn off this BLOODY HEAT!!!!
It's 33 degrees in the shadow and I want to die. I know several of you suffer much worse temperatures, but heat, like cold, is something you to some extent get used to and I'm a swedish woman and I'm not used to this. Everything over 25 degrees is just Too Warm.
The weather forecast says it will go on for a week and the tabloids have "The wonderful weather stays" and other similar stupid things as headlines. Aargh! Or flat is built so that it should keep warmth well too, to save on heating costs, so it's horrible in here. And horrible outside. At least here there's no sun.
I have just washed ten bottles so that I can bottle my elderflower lemonade. If it hasn't been spoilt by the heat. Dishwashing in hot water, wonderful!

Comments

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

WHAT?!?! I confess I had to use a converter to find out that it's 91 degrees F where you are? That's how hot it gets here in the tropics! And they say there's no such thing as global warming!

[jenthompson.livejournal.com]

Yeah... that's pretty damn hot... even for Texas. And I'm assuming that most Swedish people don't have air-conditioning in their homes or cars (which we all do), so it would be a lot more miserable for you guys.

I hope you get some relief soon!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Newer cars have AC, but not homes. It has gone down to 30 degrees outside now, but I can't feel a difference. I hope it cools down a lot in the evening or I won't enjoy the concert.

Eva

[yorkshirelad.livejournal.com]

It does not matter where you live; those temps are hot. We get those temps and higher durring the summer here and I have lived without air conditioning before. I feel your pain and will pray that cooler temps come your way.

[twe.livejournal.com]

I used to live down in DC and survived in warmer temps than that, but now that I've been living in the northeast for years, I'm already complaining about the heat when it hits the mid 80s. It really drains your energy. (Oddly enough, it's actually been unseasonably cool here for the last week. I was wearing long pants and a jacket as we got socked by the storm that was hurricane Cindy. Maybe she drove our summer weather to your side of the Atlantic.)

Elderflower lemonade sounds quite lovely.

[dame-eleanor.livejournal.com]

EEEP! My sympathies dearheart! How's little Maja coping?

I lived in Southern California for 35 years, and always hated the heat, but did get conditioned to it, as you say. However, after a decade here in the Pacific Northwest, I simply can't tolerate it. The sun feels so intense on one's skin...and it just kills me! I would so much rather cope with cold, than heat!

We had a very similar heat spell here in May, and we're all just praying that the rest of summer will not see a return of that, or worse.
I hope your hot spell passes soon!!

Elderflower lemondade? I've never heard of it before. Sounds delicious!!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

You take 30 "flocks" of elderflowers (they have a flat shape made from many small flowers). Rinse them carefully in cold water. . Put them in a bucket with a lid on, they easily turn brown in contact with oxygen. Put two finely sliced lemons on top of it. Put 1,5 litre of water to boil and add 2 litres of sugar, when the sugar is totally dissolved take some of it and mix with 50 grams of citric acid. Pour it back in to water-sugar mix and mix. Pour it over the elderflowers. Store cool with a lid on for five days. Then you pour it in bottles. It keeps well. Mix with water before drinking.

Eva

[dame-eleanor.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Eva! If I can find the elder flowers I'll make some.

I agree with you totaly!

[haugtussa.livejournal.com]

The weather is the same in Oslo, 32-33c and it is just to hot to think! Luckily I live close to the see, so I can go down and swim when it gets too unbeareble! Tonight I am putting up my viking tent in the garden, it is too hot to sleep inside!

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

I don't have a problem with heat-- it's humidity and heat together that makes me wilt.

It gets up as high as 40 to 41 within an hour's drive around here in August/September. However, the humidity is almost nil, so it isn't as dreadful as your heat wave.

My sympathies!

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I misremembered the conversion. That's 120F, which I think is... almost 49. 48.88888 or something like that.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Eeek! Horrible.

Eva