How hot is too hot?

WeeGord

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Currently sweltering away at 28 degrees and it's far too stifling. About 15 is my comfortable max but then I'm a pasty skinned Northumbrian who's idea of sunshine is a cloudy day at Tynemouth.

I make Casper the Friendly Ghost look like David Dickinson after a sunbed session.
 
It depends where doesn't it? It was 36 degrees on Friday and that's too hot for the UK. Too sweaty. Yet in a drier heat, 40 degrees is easy to take.

It's the humidity that kills you!
 
Middle East then 50 degrees is bare able.
Uk I’d go for 25 degrees. 3 months of that and I’d be a happy Tanned man
 
Currently sweltering away at 28 degrees and it's far too stifling. About 15 is my comfortable max but then I'm a pasty skinned Northumbrian who's idea of sunshine is a cloudy day at Tynemouth.

I make Casper the Friendly Ghost look like David Dickinson after a sunbed session.
Same here. Currently teetering on the edge of heat rash in Cullercoats.
 
Same here. Currently teetering on the edge of heat rash in Cullercoats.

I feel your pain, I really do. Most people seem to adore the heat but I've always been fairly uncomfortable in it. Currently sitting in a beer garden in Wroclaw sipping a pint of beer with Mrs WeeGord, sadly its now 30 degrees. She's happy though and as she always says, if she's happy I must be 😁
 
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As a man who left the grim north many years ago I miss the Boro chill. 😉

I have a house that is well insulated and fairly new.. the master bedroom on the top floor is absolutely hideous at the moment. 4 windows that I can't actually open due to someones hayfever.

I'm getting air conditioning for next summer.. anything above 25 is too much in this humidity
 
42 in Malaga a couple of days ago, and was still 37 at midnight on our terrace. Not humid but the difference was there’s usually a gentle sea breeze making it feel cooler and there wasn’t then - stifling.

Back down to the usual 32ish during the day and a fresh low 20s at night for the next week
 
Stood on the edge of a volcano in Bandung, Indonesia a while back. In August! Rather hot as you can imagine!
 
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As others have said, it depends on context and environment.....in somewhere humid even 25C can feel stifling to me, but in a drier heat I could go another 10 degrees, especially if there was a breeze and some shade. Whenever it's hot at home, the worst thing for me is going back indoors. Houses and office buildings (or schools, where I worked) in the UK are not designed to stay cool in hot weather. I couldn't manage without AC in the summer over here!
 
It's too hot when a breeze makes it worse, the fan assisted oven effect, like in the Middle East when the temp gets into the high 40's 😥
 
Ok so, at 33 degrees it's "cooler" in London today but it's still mega hot. Went out for a lunchtime walk and even my sweat patches have sweat patches on them.

Any weather that requires you to change and shower every hour is officially too hot!
 
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