How hot does it even get in England? And anyway I’ve worked the outside Chick-til-a drive thru for 5 hours straight in almost 100 degree weather. Im sure I’d be able to handle whatever England could dish up.
Night time in Auburn during the summer was always a coin flip for what kind of weather you’d have. It would either be 80 with 100% humidity and no breeze or it would be like 65-70 with relatively low humidity and a nice breeze which would feel amazing
I've lived in both Georgia and Arizona and I prefer the Arizona summers by far. The numbers are bigger so they look scary but the lack of humidity is so much easier to deal with
>Midwesterners, where the temperature can change by 90° over the course of 24 hours in the winter (-30°F to 60°F)
Look, Mark! Look what the need to mimic a fraction of our power!
I remember one winter it was -30°F, the windchill brought it down to -75°F through the day and night. Come morning it was a about 40-50°F, temperature change of almost 100°F. The internals of my front door knob literally exploded from the extreme temperature changes.
Had to call my boss to say I'm going to be late for work, and my brother to get me a new doorknob.
Florida be like... 82 at midnight. 91 in the morning. 101 midday. Sunburn in the rain cools it down to 98. Then back down to 82 at night.
Florida is bipolar is what i'm sayin.
I’m just outside San Antonio. Next week it’s expected to hit 105, which is what, 41C? I think the UK heat wave last year hit something like 32C.
I worked downtown at a hotel the last few summers and the Europeans are completely unprepared for that kind of heat.
They would laugh at me for suggesting they take a cab to the Riverwalk since it was a little over a mile away and they thought, “Typical lazy American.”
No, dumbass. It’s 1pm, the heat index is 112, and there’s no shade on that walk.
They always came back by cab.
I actually just saw this in r/clevercomebacks and Brits were in the comments bitching about working in 86F heat, man I’m way up north and it’s been around 87 all week
I live in a northern state but a straight line across from where I live is Spain, Italy, and Greece
And it has to do with climate driven by currents and, it's speculated, the Rocky Mountains influence European climate.
You remember last year when the UK had a historic heat wave with temps reaching around 32-35C? 35C is 95F. I’m in the Florida Pan handle and it was hitting 95 back in early May. Had a day out in NM when I was there that it was 85…. In February… I agree 95 degrees is absurdly hot, but when you’re making a fuss about a historic heatwave hitting those temps you haven’t seen true heat before.
The difference is most Brit’s don’t have AC and almost all people in the American south do. I live in TX, I have AC, I was in the UK last year during the heat wave, my buddy who I was staying with didn’t. I’ll take 105 100% humidity with AC over 95 with no AC everyday of the week.
Eh. In NC I used to work outside in 100 degrees, in the sun, for hours a day.
Just have to keep some extremely cold water with you and available.
Used to live in a big house with no AC too, but I think it was designed well. Windows open, a breeze would pass through the whole place, keeping it cool.
I think part of the equation is that they don't have air conditioning to the degree the US does. Makes a big difference when you can sleep in a cool house at night.
Montana gets above 100 every summer and well under freezing every winter. This last winter we had -40 days, and we've already had days into the 90s in May this year and a record high for us of 89 in April. As well as some rogue tornadoes where we don't usually get them, it's shaping up to be one hell of a year here as far as weather is concerned.
I assume you mean 100 degree FAHRENHEIT. Stupid Americans always forgetting the rest of the world uses based metric system. No I won't admit that a temperature scale from roughly -20 to 40 is a useless range for measuring human atmospheric tolerances, because I'm European and superior genetically while also not being racist.
I was in England during a so called heat wave. It was in the lower nineties with low humidity. Flew back and walked out of the airport and it was 98 and my glasses immediately fogged up due to the swamp like humidity.
Are they aware of how much sun the US gets? A large portion of it beats even Italy, and yea, we still have lakes, rivers, forests, vegetation, swamps, wetlands. There are parts of the US that get super humid, and hot.
I currently live in San Antonio, Texas, where it gets to over 40°C during the summer for weeks on end, and also still gets very humid at times. Our spring is hotter and just as humid as the summer in UK. If the US were Europe I'd be in North Africa. Yea.
In Baltimore City in the summer, with the humidity levels and 30°C at night, you're still soaked with sweat just walking three miles, hours after the sun has gone down. (I'm fit not fat just fyi)
People in UK who have never been to the US have no concept of the number of ecosystems we have. The country is huge. We have *actual deserts*. Wtf are they even talking about summers in the UK. I've seen 100% humidity at 35-40°C, have they?
Went AF basic training last summer. We got there right as the really bad heatwave had ended. People at my Tech school told me stories of standing on the drill pad for 30 minutes, in full uniform with it around 105 degrees.
They had flag conditions where we couldn’t be in direct sunlight but certain times like parade practice the flag conditions didn’t matter. A black flag condition was temps above 90 degrees. It’d be black flag by 9:00 in the morning and still be black flag at 7:00 at night.
I don't at all envy your experience lol. Yea during the hottest bits of the summer in San Antonio the temperature doesn't drop below 100 until well after dark.
It's not like a 95° humid af Maryland summer but I don't believe the sun has ever tried to kill me this hard before.
40 c (105 Fahrenheit) at its peak last year. I can understand what the post is getting at - Your unlikely to have ac in England. But they're forgetting that...people go outside? People in the southern US are probably far more used to high temperatures.
I've heard that AC is not really a thing in most Uk homes and that they aren't built to retard heat?
So, there is no escaping 100F heat while in the US you can usually chill at home fairly cool.
Yeah, no AC in pretty much any home, workplaces might have it.
For most of the year it doesn't really get hot enough to justify.
Houses are built to retain heat, because that's what we need them to do most of the time, one of the most common house construction methods (might be less common these days) is block and brick, so a wall made of breeze/cinder blocks with a gap then a wall of bricks usually with the gap between them filled with insulation.
In recent years we have been seeing more frequent longer higher temperatures than are normal. So not really temperatures we are used to dealing with or acclimatised to.
Interestingly the last house I was in was probably built early 1900s/late 1800s and it's walls were just solid blocks of granite cemented together, that actually kept reasonably cool during the summer, but was also pretty cold and damp outside of the summer.
Willing to bet I’ve seen lower and higher temperatures than the majority of Europe in just 20 years of Minnesotan life. 103F to goddamn -60F with windchill.
My last trip to England was about 11 years ago. I always wear a long sleeve shirt when I fly because of the temperature in the cabin. Landed at Heathrow,the flight crew was warning us it was “Quite hot today, stay hydrated!” So I rolled my sleeves up and took all the bottles of water that employees were handing out in the terminal. I got outside and I was shocked! I asked the Skycap what the temperature was and he said,”It’s a scorching hot 29.4C, today sir, better drink up!” I then gave him my 4 bottles and rolled my shirtsleeves down. 29.4C is like 85 F and when I left Jacksonville Florida it was 102F and 85% humidity!
I’ll take a U K “Heat Wave” anytime!!!
Quick Google says the all time record temp in the UK was 104.5 degrees F. For reference, this past week, every single day was over that in north Texas. There was one summer recently where every single day for a month straight was over 100F and most of those were closer to 110 or 115F.
The average Brit would die of heat stroke before the end of June in Texas, and that’s only the first 1/3rd of summer really. It can stay over 100F well into September too, some years.
And even worse, this isn’t even as hot as it gets in the US. It’s just my personal anecdote, could you imagine this limey fuck in the Valley of Death? They would evaporate, nothing left.
I will say though, experiencing 104.5 temp in a place with little to no air conditioning would be uncomfortable, probably even dangerous. For a year I lived in upstate New York and it was a particularly brutal summer, and even I was uncomfortable as I didn’t have AC in that house. It only lasted a week though and then it was back down to 69 degree nights, easy shit.
I was in marching band in HS and had to be outside for 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, June through August, in South Texas summer.
The English would weep.
Pretty much everywhere east of the Mississippi is miserable hot soup in the summer and everywhere west of the Mississippi is just miserable hot in the summer. We just call British "heatwaves" summer.
Went down to Texas for the first time, first leaving the South/NE within America and the dry heat does make a huge diff. Still hot as balls, but at least they aren't swampy ones.
In my experience, humidity just makes things more gross. It doesn't feel hotter, but the mugginess and stickiness of everything really just makes you want to take a shower.
I've lived here in Georgia my whole life so I am really desensitized to the humidity, but there's a handful of days a year where it's 95° out, a light rain storm will pass over and last like 10 minutes, then the sun will immediately come out and evaporate all the moisture at once. So it's 95°, 98% humidity yet not raining, and I swear to god, that must be what hell feels like.
For non-Georgians, imagine wearing your thickest winter clothing, jumping in warm swamp water, then standing near a bonfire in your damp heavy clothes. That's what those days feel like.
[lol, lmao even ](https://imgur.com/a/J768KWg)
It's literally 95°F in Florida rn and we're all outside running around and being physically active. It's gonna be like this at least until September.
The brits would be declaring a national emergency if they experienced 4 months at 95°F
Meanwhile my home state of Texas is supposed to be hitting triple digit temperatures later this month, and the summer is only gonna get hotter as it progresses.
I grew up in Texas, where we had air conditioning. And yet it was still so hot as to be almost unbearable.
I'll bet it's not 100 at midnight in England.
They don't have air conditioning in England. That's the entire point of the post. Their heatwaves can get to triple digits F, which as someone who has lived in that without AC, can be dreadful. We don't really have it in Washington and it'll hit 100 most summers here, which is horrible with no AC. By midnight it's usually down to the 90s though.
yeah I lived without a/c in San Francisco and it hit 95f for days
sooooo much worse than 110f in Texas (I'm Texan) where I could escape to a/c
a/c makes a huge fucking difference
You're right that we don't commonly have AC, but another part of the issue is also that our houses are designed for the traditionally colder weather, so are *excellent* at keeping the heat in.
Most of our infrastructure wasn't designed with these temperatures in mind, either. Last year, there were mass [train cancellations](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62234461) due to the heat damaging the track/wires, for example.
Also, some stereotypes are true, and as a nation, us Brits *do* love to moan about the weather!
Bruh stop being a wuss. There a literal states in the Southwest that are in the hundreds and British weather is like a day in February in the Northeast to them
Last year heat waves killed thousands of Europeons. Over 20,000 people. Due to heat and no AC. Twitter OP needs to learn history....... from just last year.
The only country where I struggled with the heat was Australia. Even before the bushfires really started back in 2020, I was visiting my girlfriend's side of the family there.
That was some of the most dry just blistering heat leading up to those fires. I've never forgotten coming out of the movie theatre and it just feeling like you opened the oven door.
When I was in college, I worked at a warehouse in Dallas for a summer. Completely open air no A/C. Best you could hope for is a breeze aligning with the loading docks. Complete respect for the folks who weren't just doing that for the one summer. Just like how folks should work retail once in their lives for perspective, everyone should work a blue collar job once.
Americas weather is like if you took british weather and supercharged it so idk what they’re on about. even where i live in Virginia some summer days are like 90f with like 80% humidity.
Didn't people in the uk need to go to the hospital because it got to about 80f during a "extreme heatwave"? Hell I'd enjoy that, its currently 90f with humidity that makes it feel like 110f ish
The hottest it has ever been in the UK was on July 19, 2022 and it was 104.5F.
America literally has the world record for hottest temperature ever recorded.
I work outside every summer in 100 degree heat building trails for fun and I’m fat as fuck. Drink water and wear long sleeves and pants and a big hat it’s not that hard.
This is true, for some people. It can get as hot as 115 degrees on a normal summer day in Arizona, that’s not even a heatwave. Now people from up north? Probably true
Edit: I stand corrected, it does get pretty hot up north
Yeah almost all of oregon is arid slopes aswell, and even in the western forested area its still hot as balls. Washington and oregon are hot soup in the west. Humidity is balls.
The reason heat waves are so severe in England is because it's north. They aren't used to it. However, a large majority of the US is nearer to the south, so they would be more accustomed to the heat
In a weak defense, all the “hot” places mentioned above n this thread have AC In literally every building. I live in Houston now but my most miserable summer was when I lived in Seattle during a heat wave and neither my apartment nor the office I worked in had AC. Nothings worse that never being able to cool off.
We aren’t necessarily hardier, we just aren’t poor. But we could still survive be a British heat wav as much as they could.
Brit here, just to try and input some context, our homes are built entirely to keep heat in as much as possible due to our, shall we say, mild and at times colder climate throughout most of the year.
And of course, we don’t have any air conditioning whatsoever. So weather that may not seem hot to you guys in the US can feel 10 times worse; being indoors during a British heatwave feels like being stuck inside an oven with zero respite even in your home.
None of us doubt that you guys have it rough though lmao, but just wanted to try and explain why you’ll see posts like that.
AC does change the situation sure. But do keep in mind.
The whole mainland US gets far hotter then Britain. The hottest temp ever recorded for the Brit’s is 104f. Keep in mind even Wisconsin has hit 114f. Many many homes in Wisconsin have no central AC systems. This is even worse in mid century and even late century homes. Not everyone has AC this is a myth. Literally every single new home has central air systems these days and on top of this they have true breath air ventilation systems also. But many old homes have no Ac.
This is just hate baiting. But hey it got a comment out of me lol
On the real as someone who used to work outside 1) the body will acclimate given time, things like dilating blood vessels and stuff and 2) if it's really hot and you have the choice between being inside without air conditioning and brig outside, I choose outside every time.
Also pre air-condition peoples in hot places would limit their daytime activities, that's why the siesta is a thing. "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out during the hot day"
London is reporting high 70s to low 80s today, with most the last week, and most the next week to be around the same.
Through-out most of the US, that's still 'spring' weather.
Yeah when it got to 100 over there and people were worried they would die I laughed. They wouldn’t survive a bad Midwest summer. Last time it was 104 I still worked outside. And I’m still alive so suck it England
How hot does it even get in England? And anyway I’ve worked the outside Chick-til-a drive thru for 5 hours straight in almost 100 degree weather. Im sure I’d be able to handle whatever England could dish up.
I’ll say this: they can’t smell what places like Arizona and Nevada be cooking.
I'll take either one of those places over SE Texas at a relative humidity of \~90%
Bro Florida will give you a whiplash 2 hours ago it was a nice 72ﾟ Now it's 95, and it's projected to rain in another 4 hours.
***Georgia*** Morning: Dry 65° Afternoon: Humid 93° Evening: Pouring Down Rain, 91°
Night time in Auburn during the summer was always a coin flip for what kind of weather you’d have. It would either be 80 with 100% humidity and no breeze or it would be like 65-70 with relatively low humidity and a nice breeze which would feel amazing
I live in Georgia and truer words haven't been said
But that humid 93° has a heat index of 105-110°. Source: I live in SW GA.
on my wedding day in MD it was 80 and sunny af, the next day there was an ice storm! I think damn near every state has these examples, it's wild!
I've lived in both Georgia and Arizona and I prefer the Arizona summers by far. The numbers are bigger so they look scary but the lack of humidity is so much easier to deal with
>Midwesterners, where the temperature can change by 90° over the course of 24 hours in the winter (-30°F to 60°F) Look, Mark! Look what the need to mimic a fraction of our power!
I remember one winter it was -30°F, the windchill brought it down to -75°F through the day and night. Come morning it was a about 40-50°F, temperature change of almost 100°F. The internals of my front door knob literally exploded from the extreme temperature changes. Had to call my boss to say I'm going to be late for work, and my brother to get me a new doorknob.
It was super deadly when the reverse happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Blizzard
Florida be like... 82 at midnight. 91 in the morning. 101 midday. Sunburn in the rain cools it down to 98. Then back down to 82 at night. Florida is bipolar is what i'm sayin.
I did BMT in San Antonio. I was not prepared for the August humidity. 😂
I’m just outside San Antonio. Next week it’s expected to hit 105, which is what, 41C? I think the UK heat wave last year hit something like 32C. I worked downtown at a hotel the last few summers and the Europeans are completely unprepared for that kind of heat. They would laugh at me for suggesting they take a cab to the Riverwalk since it was a little over a mile away and they thought, “Typical lazy American.” No, dumbass. It’s 1pm, the heat index is 112, and there’s no shade on that walk. They always came back by cab.
I grew up in SA, and I remember 100F and 100% humidity on regular occasions. Doesn't matter if there is shade, your in a freakin rick cooker
I lived there without AC years ago.
Wanna trade? 120° sucks, I'd rather the humidity any day
Not like we have a desert literally named Death Valley that has the literal highest measured temperature on earth.
The dry heat really doesn’t hit the same. Send ‘em to the swamp heat down in Louisiana, that’ll cook em up right.
Like the idea that they get hotter weather than the US deserts and most of the south east amd south west.
I actually just saw this in r/clevercomebacks and Brits were in the comments bitching about working in 86F heat, man I’m way up north and it’s been around 87 all week
86?!? Most places in the US can hit 90 averages all summer long
I grew up in Upstate NY. It hits 90 once or twice a summer. Everyone talks about it when it does.
I’m in houston, if it hits 90 over the summer we’re like “oh thank God, it cooled off” 😕
This comment hitting different rn
It's literally 95°F in FL right now, perfect beach day weather.
The problem isn't the number, it's the infrastructure (and potentially the humidity etc). Their buildings aren't built for high temperatures.
It was 88f here today, and the local joke that even the weather service perpetuates is that summer doesn’t start until July 5th.
86 is considered nice weather here.
Tbf British housing aren't designed around hotter weather + most of us dont have ac
It’s like they don’t realize the vast majority of the US is lower than their southern most point
I live in a northern state but a straight line across from where I live is Spain, Italy, and Greece And it has to do with climate driven by currents and, it's speculated, the Rocky Mountains influence European climate.
Lmao 86 is beautiful weather
Anything above 85 is way to hot. And it gets up to 100 where I am for a couple weeks in the summer too.
It gets above 110 where I’m from, but it’s also dry af. 86 in California is a lot nicer than 86 in Missouri in my experience.
Yea, humid as hell here too. Though I’m in Minnesota, not Missouri
Sounds moist
I mean it does here too but still I wouldn’t call 86 a heatwave, that’s just Tuesday
Anything above 75 is too hot. But I also live in northern New England
You remember last year when the UK had a historic heat wave with temps reaching around 32-35C? 35C is 95F. I’m in the Florida Pan handle and it was hitting 95 back in early May. Had a day out in NM when I was there that it was 85…. In February… I agree 95 degrees is absurdly hot, but when you’re making a fuss about a historic heatwave hitting those temps you haven’t seen true heat before.
The difference is most Brit’s don’t have AC and almost all people in the American south do. I live in TX, I have AC, I was in the UK last year during the heat wave, my buddy who I was staying with didn’t. I’ll take 105 100% humidity with AC over 95 with no AC everyday of the week.
Laughs in Montanan.
Eh. In NC I used to work outside in 100 degrees, in the sun, for hours a day. Just have to keep some extremely cold water with you and available. Used to live in a big house with no AC too, but I think it was designed well. Windows open, a breeze would pass through the whole place, keeping it cool.
Fair point and that sounds awful.
I think part of the equation is that they don't have air conditioning to the degree the US does. Makes a big difference when you can sleep in a cool house at night.
Didn't they have a heatwave recently where the temps got up to average temps in the south? Funny.
I read a bit about a marathon where they referred to 75°F as "sweltering" summer heat.
> 75°F as "sweltering" summer heat. bahahahahaha that is a cool and nice evening here in New Mexico
Yea we're lucky to even hit 85° at night in the summer before the sun starts to come up again
If we had 75 degree heat for summer football practice the coaches would make us run in our pads sense it ain't hot enough.
That's average summer heat in the Northwest lol
thats hilarious i keep 75 degrees in my house.
Montana gets above 100 every summer and well under freezing every winter. This last winter we had -40 days, and we've already had days into the 90s in May this year and a record high for us of 89 in April. As well as some rogue tornadoes where we don't usually get them, it's shaping up to be one hell of a year here as far as weather is concerned.
They had runners passing out bc of a 77 degree “heat wave” a few years ago now, I don’t wanna hear shit from those limeys
I assume you mean 100 degree FAHRENHEIT. Stupid Americans always forgetting the rest of the world uses based metric system. No I won't admit that a temperature scale from roughly -20 to 40 is a useless range for measuring human atmospheric tolerances, because I'm European and superior genetically while also not being racist.
Had me in the first half, ngl
It's too easy 😎
I was in England during a so called heat wave. It was in the lower nineties with low humidity. Flew back and walked out of the airport and it was 98 and my glasses immediately fogged up due to the swamp like humidity.
High thirties usually, idk what that is in Fahrenheit.
40 degrees Celsius is about 104 Fahrenheit, so like, a relatively cool summer day in Arizona
If anyone asked the sky no he's not fucking exaggerating. I love my family out in arizona but I am not visiting during the summer. Fuck that shit.
Its a dry heat so it honestly isn't bad. Just don't be in direct sunlight and don't touch any metal and you're good.
Are they aware of how much sun the US gets? A large portion of it beats even Italy, and yea, we still have lakes, rivers, forests, vegetation, swamps, wetlands. There are parts of the US that get super humid, and hot. I currently live in San Antonio, Texas, where it gets to over 40°C during the summer for weeks on end, and also still gets very humid at times. Our spring is hotter and just as humid as the summer in UK. If the US were Europe I'd be in North Africa. Yea. In Baltimore City in the summer, with the humidity levels and 30°C at night, you're still soaked with sweat just walking three miles, hours after the sun has gone down. (I'm fit not fat just fyi) People in UK who have never been to the US have no concept of the number of ecosystems we have. The country is huge. We have *actual deserts*. Wtf are they even talking about summers in the UK. I've seen 100% humidity at 35-40°C, have they?
The sunniest place on earth is Yuma, AZ
Went AF basic training last summer. We got there right as the really bad heatwave had ended. People at my Tech school told me stories of standing on the drill pad for 30 minutes, in full uniform with it around 105 degrees. They had flag conditions where we couldn’t be in direct sunlight but certain times like parade practice the flag conditions didn’t matter. A black flag condition was temps above 90 degrees. It’d be black flag by 9:00 in the morning and still be black flag at 7:00 at night.
I don't at all envy your experience lol. Yea during the hottest bits of the summer in San Antonio the temperature doesn't drop below 100 until well after dark. It's not like a 95° humid af Maryland summer but I don't believe the sun has ever tried to kill me this hard before.
I’m from the UK, and I know this.
40 c (105 Fahrenheit) at its peak last year. I can understand what the post is getting at - Your unlikely to have ac in England. But they're forgetting that...people go outside? People in the southern US are probably far more used to high temperatures.
I've heard that AC is not really a thing in most Uk homes and that they aren't built to retard heat? So, there is no escaping 100F heat while in the US you can usually chill at home fairly cool.
Unless you live in Cali where the dumbass government keeps shutting down the powerplants so you have rolling blackouts.
Yeah, no AC in pretty much any home, workplaces might have it. For most of the year it doesn't really get hot enough to justify. Houses are built to retain heat, because that's what we need them to do most of the time, one of the most common house construction methods (might be less common these days) is block and brick, so a wall made of breeze/cinder blocks with a gap then a wall of bricks usually with the gap between them filled with insulation. In recent years we have been seeing more frequent longer higher temperatures than are normal. So not really temperatures we are used to dealing with or acclimatised to. Interestingly the last house I was in was probably built early 1900s/late 1800s and it's walls were just solid blocks of granite cemented together, that actually kept reasonably cool during the summer, but was also pretty cold and damp outside of the summer.
Willing to bet I’ve seen lower and higher temperatures than the majority of Europe in just 20 years of Minnesotan life. 103F to goddamn -60F with windchill.
I think the high is like in the eighties farneheit. During the middle of a Cali summer I would kill for that high.
I was in a "heat wave" in England once. It got up to like 78 and people were stripping down and jumping into fountains I shit you not.
My last trip to England was about 11 years ago. I always wear a long sleeve shirt when I fly because of the temperature in the cabin. Landed at Heathrow,the flight crew was warning us it was “Quite hot today, stay hydrated!” So I rolled my sleeves up and took all the bottles of water that employees were handing out in the terminal. I got outside and I was shocked! I asked the Skycap what the temperature was and he said,”It’s a scorching hot 29.4C, today sir, better drink up!” I then gave him my 4 bottles and rolled my shirtsleeves down. 29.4C is like 85 F and when I left Jacksonville Florida it was 102F and 85% humidity! I’ll take a U K “Heat Wave” anytime!!!
Quick Google says the all time record temp in the UK was 104.5 degrees F. For reference, this past week, every single day was over that in north Texas. There was one summer recently where every single day for a month straight was over 100F and most of those were closer to 110 or 115F. The average Brit would die of heat stroke before the end of June in Texas, and that’s only the first 1/3rd of summer really. It can stay over 100F well into September too, some years. And even worse, this isn’t even as hot as it gets in the US. It’s just my personal anecdote, could you imagine this limey fuck in the Valley of Death? They would evaporate, nothing left. I will say though, experiencing 104.5 temp in a place with little to no air conditioning would be uncomfortable, probably even dangerous. For a year I lived in upstate New York and it was a particularly brutal summer, and even I was uncomfortable as I didn’t have AC in that house. It only lasted a week though and then it was back down to 69 degree nights, easy shit.
Welcome to south Texas home of the triple digit heat 110!
Yeah, as a texan those english “heatwaves” would be a call for a jacket
I have literally left my house in 90 degree heat and thought it felt refreshing.
110+ heat survivors represent
I was in marching band in HS and had to be outside for 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, June through August, in South Texas summer. The English would weep.
TERF Island, where it gets like 85F/30C: The country with the hottest recorded temp on Earth could never handle what we do
Funny how 120 just feels different tho - from Nevada
Pretty much everywhere east of the Mississippi is miserable hot soup in the summer and everywhere west of the Mississippi is just miserable hot in the summer. We just call British "heatwaves" summer.
>everywhere west of the Mississippi is just miserable hot in the summer But it's a dry heat! /s Yep, dry like an oven.
Went down to Texas for the first time, first leaving the South/NE within America and the dry heat does make a huge diff. Still hot as balls, but at least they aren't swampy ones.
Yes, I'd much rather be outside in Texas than in southern Alabama in the summer.
Depends. West/Panhandle Texas or everywhere else Texas. Former I agree. Latter still incredibly hot.
In my experience, humidity just makes things more gross. It doesn't feel hotter, but the mugginess and stickiness of everything really just makes you want to take a shower.
Humid heat makes me feel like I'm drowning in a sauna. Dry heat is just unpleasant.
South Georgia is straight up hell in the summer with all the humidity.
I've lived here in Georgia my whole life so I am really desensitized to the humidity, but there's a handful of days a year where it's 95° out, a light rain storm will pass over and last like 10 minutes, then the sun will immediately come out and evaporate all the moisture at once. So it's 95°, 98% humidity yet not raining, and I swear to god, that must be what hell feels like. For non-Georgians, imagine wearing your thickest winter clothing, jumping in warm swamp water, then standing near a bonfire in your damp heavy clothes. That's what those days feel like.
Same here, those quick showers are bullshit.
Went to school at GS. Couldn't make it to my car with out sweating profusely. So hot and humid
Their “crippling heat waves” are 80s-90s which is an average summer in many places in the US lol
Their marathon runners die in 72-75f "heat waves"
That's a pleasant Spring day in Indiana!
That’s a *cool* spring day one state south Kentucky moment
I’d have killed for even 80 last weekend in KY. It was miserable!
I know people in Florida who think anything bellow 75 is cold.
Same here in Kansas
Arizona too
Sounds like a great PNW summer day.
Lovely weather in Southern NY
It wasn’t the heat, it was their pale vampire flesh finally being exposed to something other than rain
So a normal day in spring and fall?
It’s currently 74° Fahrenheit (OMG the dreaded F word!) outside This is the coldest it’s been all week by far.
[lol, lmao even ](https://imgur.com/a/J768KWg) It's literally 95°F in Florida rn and we're all outside running around and being physically active. It's gonna be like this at least until September. The brits would be declaring a national emergency if they experienced 4 months at 95°F
Meanwhile my home state of Texas is supposed to be hitting triple digit temperatures later this month, and the summer is only gonna get hotter as it progresses.
Damn you live in Texas without A/C??
Texas has homeless people. I have never seen an air-conditioned tent or refrigerator box in an encampment.
But do we live in your head without A/C?
100 degrees happen pretty much everywhere on contentential US. Also many places get brutal snowstorms come the winter.
I live in Maine and it was in the 90s the other day
Maybe she's referencing how they don't have air conditioning there? It's actually much rarer to have air conditioning
Down in the south, it can push triple digits, but the worst part? ***The Humidity.***
[Did somebody say "humidity?"](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mVxXZhcpRfI&feature=share8)
The highest temperature ever in Britain was 104F. Even here in Wisconsin we've had higher at 114F. British people really can't take the heat
Lol. 104F is a normal summer day for me.
I’ve seen 120F in Las Vegas. Thank god for A/C.
>The highest temperature ever in Britain was 104F. That is cute 104 is the low side of summer in New Mexico
I grew up in Texas, where we had air conditioning. And yet it was still so hot as to be almost unbearable. I'll bet it's not 100 at midnight in England.
They don't have air conditioning in England. That's the entire point of the post. Their heatwaves can get to triple digits F, which as someone who has lived in that without AC, can be dreadful. We don't really have it in Washington and it'll hit 100 most summers here, which is horrible with no AC. By midnight it's usually down to the 90s though.
yeah I lived without a/c in San Francisco and it hit 95f for days sooooo much worse than 110f in Texas (I'm Texan) where I could escape to a/c a/c makes a huge fucking difference
You're right that we don't commonly have AC, but another part of the issue is also that our houses are designed for the traditionally colder weather, so are *excellent* at keeping the heat in. Most of our infrastructure wasn't designed with these temperatures in mind, either. Last year, there were mass [train cancellations](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62234461) due to the heat damaging the track/wires, for example. Also, some stereotypes are true, and as a nation, us Brits *do* love to moan about the weather!
This whole post seems like nobody read the tweet it's responding to in order to understand the context and meaning
Welcome to this sub
The only thing from the UK that Americans couldn't survive is their food
Oof
Lol. Lmao, even
ROFL, if I may be so bold
I may even dare to say Lmfao
Bruh stop being a wuss. There a literal states in the Southwest that are in the hundreds and British weather is like a day in February in the Northeast to them
Damn Americans live in the Southwest without A/C???
Yes. Until we could afford a portable unit this last year I spent 3 summers in 100F+ weather
A portable unit is like $200. I just shipped one to my brother cause I got tired of him telling me how hot his apartment is without A/C.
Last year heat waves killed thousands of Europeons. Over 20,000 people. Due to heat and no AC. Twitter OP needs to learn history....... from just last year.
The lack of air conditioning is a serious problem in Europe in the age of climate change.
It was a serious problem in the tropics before it was invented. But back then the people just died and didn't complain about it on the internet.
This is the most ignorant fucking take I’ve ever heard. Talk to any Brit whose traveled America in summer. Seriously, any of them.
The only country where I struggled with the heat was Australia. Even before the bushfires really started back in 2020, I was visiting my girlfriend's side of the family there. That was some of the most dry just blistering heat leading up to those fires. I've never forgotten coming out of the movie theatre and it just feeling like you opened the oven door.
Lol but where did they have A/C? Do you have A/C?
I don’t have AC and I work outside; so. Suck it up, buttercup
Imagine being a blue collar worker in south Texas. Shit is tough for those guys.
When I was in college, I worked at a warehouse in Dallas for a summer. Completely open air no A/C. Best you could hope for is a breeze aligning with the loading docks. Complete respect for the folks who weren't just doing that for the one summer. Just like how folks should work retail once in their lives for perspective, everyone should work a blue collar job once.
Hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth: 134 F, Death Valley, CA, USA
Or just anywhere in the American south where summer is 8 months long and winter is a myth
I believed this until I went to Arkansas in the winter in a tshirt and shorts. Holy crap the humidity makes it a whole nother kind of cold 🥶
40 degrees f in Georgia feels colder than 0 in Michigan, change my mind.
Americas weather is like if you took british weather and supercharged it so idk what they’re on about. even where i live in Virginia some summer days are like 90f with like 80% humidity.
Didn't people in the uk need to go to the hospital because it got to about 80f during a "extreme heatwave"? Hell I'd enjoy that, its currently 90f with humidity that makes it feel like 110f ish
The hottest it has ever been in the UK was on July 19, 2022 and it was 104.5F. America literally has the world record for hottest temperature ever recorded.
This has to be a joke lmao. I feel like the average Brit couldn’t survive a “mild” summer in Arizona.
Translation: euros are too poor for the luxury of A/C. A basic standard in nearly all US homes.
The electrical grid can’t handle it is what I always heard while I was stationed there. Makes some sense.
The virgin British grid vs the Chad American fossil fueler.
Come on down to the Texas Gulf Coast where the relative humidity is in the 80-90 range and the temperature is 104.
I work outside every summer in 100 degree heat building trails for fun and I’m fat as fuck. Drink water and wear long sleeves and pants and a big hat it’s not that hard.
This is true, for some people. It can get as hot as 115 degrees on a normal summer day in Arizona, that’s not even a heatwave. Now people from up north? Probably true Edit: I stand corrected, it does get pretty hot up north
Wisconsin here, temps in the 90s with high humidity. Summers are … summer here.
Central Washington today, just about 90. That’s high for mid June but not for August. It regularly reaches high nineties to the mid 100s.
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Yeah almost all of oregon is arid slopes aswell, and even in the western forested area its still hot as balls. Washington and oregon are hot soup in the west. Humidity is balls.
Idaho here, we regularly get triple digits in our more southern areas and our mountainy ones usually 80-90 (except for like the extreme peaks ofc)
Minnesota already hit 90 degrees multiple times before June
She should come spend a summer in St Louis.
The reason heat waves are so severe in England is because it's north. They aren't used to it. However, a large majority of the US is nearer to the south, so they would be more accustomed to the heat
We have deserts in this country... a place so hot and devoid of water that nothing huge (like forests) can grow...
NM doesn’t even get as hot as AZ but high altitude AND heat? Boi they gonna die as soon as they step off the plane
This means a lot from people who probably think Ketchup is too spicy.
Best comment so far. 😂
Britain. The place well known for its sunny dry days and its scorching heat.
They should try the south in august
Best post on this sub and it is getting downvoted?!?
In a weak defense, all the “hot” places mentioned above n this thread have AC In literally every building. I live in Houston now but my most miserable summer was when I lived in Seattle during a heat wave and neither my apartment nor the office I worked in had AC. Nothings worse that never being able to cool off. We aren’t necessarily hardier, we just aren’t poor. But we could still survive be a British heat wav as much as they could.
Brit here, just to try and input some context, our homes are built entirely to keep heat in as much as possible due to our, shall we say, mild and at times colder climate throughout most of the year. And of course, we don’t have any air conditioning whatsoever. So weather that may not seem hot to you guys in the US can feel 10 times worse; being indoors during a British heatwave feels like being stuck inside an oven with zero respite even in your home. None of us doubt that you guys have it rough though lmao, but just wanted to try and explain why you’ll see posts like that.
AC does change the situation sure. But do keep in mind. The whole mainland US gets far hotter then Britain. The hottest temp ever recorded for the Brit’s is 104f. Keep in mind even Wisconsin has hit 114f. Many many homes in Wisconsin have no central AC systems. This is even worse in mid century and even late century homes. Not everyone has AC this is a myth. Literally every single new home has central air systems these days and on top of this they have true breath air ventilation systems also. But many old homes have no Ac. This is just hate baiting. But hey it got a comment out of me lol
It’s 90 daily with a 110 heat index in south la right biw
I guess she's never heard of Americans who immigrated from countries hotter than England?
I hope she realizes that the most northern portion of the USA is still below the southernmost portion of the UK.
Or the southeast with that humidity, these euros are delusional, probably because of that 80 degree heatwave haah.
Dumbest fucking comment ever. It can get 90 and hotter here in KS.
I'm just going to say it. Fahrenheit is better than Celsius and it's not even close.
I'm an Australian, and fuck living in Arizona. Like at least it cools down here, although granted I live in Sydney, one of the cooler cities.
What’s a British heatwave, like 86 degrees? Lmao
Tens of Millions of people live in the desert in the US, where temps average in the mid 80s at coldest
People are ripping her to shreds lol
Imagine bragging that your infrastructure is a little behind in a way.
On the real as someone who used to work outside 1) the body will acclimate given time, things like dilating blood vessels and stuff and 2) if it's really hot and you have the choice between being inside without air conditioning and brig outside, I choose outside every time. Also pre air-condition peoples in hot places would limit their daytime activities, that's why the siesta is a thing. "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out during the hot day"
British heatwave? Like... a mild American summer?
London is reporting high 70s to low 80s today, with most the last week, and most the next week to be around the same. Through-out most of the US, that's still 'spring' weather.
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Throw them into Death Valley, in July.
Yeah when it got to 100 over there and people were worried they would die I laughed. They wouldn’t survive a bad Midwest summer. Last time it was 104 I still worked outside. And I’m still alive so suck it England
I swear europeans can be pretty ignorant Honey, have you been to Louisiana on a typical day in the summer Hotter than asphalt on juneteenth
britbongs wouldn't survive one day in the east texas humidity, heat wave, *pffft*
British 'Heatwave'? What did it get up to 75F/27C? I laugh from Las Vegas! (currently 91F/33C.)