This heatwave malarkey.

[miasmum]

and I am still annoyed that it takes me 1hr 45 mins to get to London and only 1 hour 2 mins to get to Birmingham tomorrow

[Suff]

TWO DAYS of hot weather. Jeez!

Not only that but tonight it will drop to 21C and tomorrow it will drop to 14C.

When all those people died in the Bordeaux area, it was over 40C during the day and 29C at night. Day, after day, after day.

[Workingman]

In the M.E. it would be high 40s to low 50s during the day, then drop to 25-28 at night. I have never been so cold!

I have also never known so many people with constant colds. Not the Saudis or Qataris, they were fine, but the Europeans and Canadians were constantly sniffling. I put it down to us "toughing it out" whereas they would wrap up warm, same as the Aussies and Saffas. A culture thing?

[Suff]

I think it is also to do with A/C islands. The locals build building and structures to defend from the heat. The Europeans build glass towers and then close all the air into a closed system and cool it with A/C. This means any virus or bacterial bug is going to do the rounds of the whole building and everyone is going to be exposed. Whereas the locals, living in buildings which are open with circulating air, are breathing air which has come from an environment which is generally clean of viruses (massive heat is fatal to viruses).

When I was a child in Cyprus I don't recall ever having a cold. But then I spent all day running around in the heat and in the 60's nobody got A/C in quarters. I clearly remember getting loads of colds when we came back so I don't think it is a lack of memory.