| How did anyone sleep last night? 08:08 - Jun 24 with 2868 views | Steve_M |
It was 22.1C at Heathrow last night, not a great deal cooler where I was:
Sleep well?
Last night was oppressive the warmest June night on record in capital a minimum of 22.1C at London Heathrow. This is well above next warmest night 20.8C set on 28 June, 1976. #heatwave — London & Southeast🔅 (@thesnowdreamer.bsky.social) 2026-06-24T06:29:36.758Z
So, not brilliantly but ok. Give it two or three more nights like that though..... |  |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:14 - Jun 24 with 2334 views | StokieBlue |
It was rather warm and unfortunately most properties have been constructed around keeping warm rather than keeping cool given the climate considerations when they were built.
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:17 - Jun 24 with 2317 views | NthQldITFC |
Top Tip: I found a brilliant way of getting to sleep on BBC1 at 9pm. |  |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:34 - Jun 24 with 2224 views | CaptainAhab |
Slept ok until about 5am when a bastard fly kept landing on me. Proceeded to wake me every 5 minutes. |  | | |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:37 - Jun 24 with 2206 views | bluelagos |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:17 - Jun 24 by NthQldITFC |
Top Tip: I found a brilliant way of getting to sleep on BBC1 at 9pm. |
Worked for me |  |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:40 - Jun 24 with 2184 views | bluelagos |
I actually ordered a shutter yesterday - my kitchen is like a frigging green house and the front window the worst offender. Problem with blinds is the heat does still get in - an outside shutter will hopefully help.
Only doing the one window - will see how it works! | |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:55 - Jun 24 with 2115 views | hype313 |
Like a baby.
But that's what necking 2 bottles of Glenfiddich does to you. |  |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:56 - Jun 24 with 2104 views | DanTheMan |
Surprisingly OK.
Took a while to get to sleep but once I got there, I was fine.
The frozen hot water bottle trick helped. |  |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:59 - Jun 24 with 2088 views | NthQldITFC |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:34 - Jun 24 by CaptainAhab |
Slept ok until about 5am when a bastard fly kept landing on me. Proceeded to wake me every 5 minutes. |
Do they only land on bastards?  | |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 09:00 - Jun 24 with 2082 views | NthQldITFC |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:55 - Jun 24 by hype313 |
Like a baby.
But that's what necking 2 bottles of Glenfiddich does to you. |
I picked one helluva heatwave to give up mainlining heroin. | |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 09:04 - Jun 24 with 2050 views | Benters |
I slept through the second half of the England game.
I stay in the North wing when the weather is like this.
I just sleep on the sofa,,balls to going to bed,the South wing in the Summer months it’s far to hot. [Post edited 24 Jun 9:06]
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 09:09 - Jun 24 with 2042 views | Steve_M |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:40 - Jun 24 by bluelagos |
I actually ordered a shutter yesterday - my kitchen is like a frigging green house and the front window the worst offender. Problem with blinds is the heat does still get in - an outside shutter will hopefully help.
Only doing the one window - will see how it works! |
Logically it should make a big difference at least to that one room, notable that continental Europe goes for external shutters for that reason.
There was a good bit in the FT a few days ago on heat mitigation measures, it's something we will all need to think about over the next few years. Comes down to three things, not all of which are possible in every circumstance:
- cross ventilation
- using stack effect to let rising heat escape
- preventing heat from getting in
Plus a fourth and air conditioning which might need to be coupled with solar panels to prevent big increases in electricity use.
Paywalled link here:
https://www.ft.com/content/683 | |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 10:01 - Jun 24 with 1927 views | bluelagos |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 09:09 - Jun 24 by Steve_M |
Logically it should make a big difference at least to that one room, notable that continental Europe goes for external shutters for that reason.
There was a good bit in the FT a few days ago on heat mitigation measures, it's something we will all need to think about over the next few years. Comes down to three things, not all of which are possible in every circumstance:
- cross ventilation
- using stack effect to let rising heat escape
- preventing heat from getting in
Plus a fourth and air conditioning which might need to be coupled with solar panels to prevent big increases in electricity use.
Paywalled link here:
https://www.ft.com/content/683 |
What's stack effect? | |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 10:08 - Jun 24 with 1902 views | carlo88 |
Beautifully, but then I did spend £7,000 on having air conditioning fitted three years ago. It's extremely efficient, and provides heating during the winter too. Best thing we ever did. |  | | |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 10:09 - Jun 24 with 1895 views | GlasgowBlue |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 10:01 - Jun 24 by bluelagos |
What's stack effect? |
4 pancakes, maple syrup, blueberries and 4 scoops of ice cream. Keeps me cool. |  |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 10:24 - Jun 24 with 1838 views | Steve_M |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 10:01 - Jun 24 by bluelagos |
What's stack effect? |
Basically, what chimneys do., takes heat and lets it rise and escape.
I had to look it up at the weekend, | |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 10:28 - Jun 24 with 1823 views | Billywitch |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:56 - Jun 24 by DanTheMan |
Surprisingly OK.
Took a while to get to sleep but once I got there, I was fine.
The frozen hot water bottle trick helped. |
Before a boys holiday many moons back, a mates mum said to us before we left "put a wet flannel in the freezer before you go out, so you can lay it on heads when you get back and go to bed" worked a treat to cool you down
in the days when you had to pay extra for the aircon remote, and the hotels in zante/malia were 0.5 star rated! | | | |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 11:08 - Jun 24 with 1756 views | Gogs |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:55 - Jun 24 by hype313 |
Like a baby.
But that's what necking 2 bottles of Glenfiddich does to you. |
I slept like a baby too, in so far as I woke up screaming every 2 hours and then soiled myself |  | | |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 11:50 - Jun 24 with 1698 views | WicklowBlue |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 10:28 - Jun 24 by Billywitch |
Before a boys holiday many moons back, a mates mum said to us before we left "put a wet flannel in the freezer before you go out, so you can lay it on heads when you get back and go to bed" worked a treat to cool you down
in the days when you had to pay extra for the aircon remote, and the hotels in zante/malia were 0.5 star rated! |
Ahh Zante... good times |  | | |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 13:14 - Jun 24 with 1610 views | BloomBlue |
The aircon in Bloom Towers made it easy to sleep.
Building regulations need to be amended and any new property must have aircon install |  | | |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 13:38 - Jun 24 with 1566 views | ronnyd |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 11:08 - Jun 24 by Gogs |
I slept like a baby too, in so far as I woke up screaming every 2 hours and then soiled myself |
Did ya Mum come in with a bottle and Pampers? | | | |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 17:59 - Jun 24 with 1431 views | NewcyBlue |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 10:24 - Jun 24 by Steve_M |
Basically, what chimneys do., takes heat and lets it rise and escape.
I had to look it up at the weekend, |
We installed AC downstairs in 2022.
It makes a massive difference. To downstairs. When you go upstairs you get about 80% of the way up and the heat hits you.
We got a portable AC for the kids bedroom, it works ok but is very inefficient. Luckily our solar panels are producing more than enough electricity for it all.
Our bedroom was 26°C through the night. I'm seriously considering installing a centralised AC unit for upstairs. |  |
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| How did anyone sleep last night? on 18:02 - Jun 24 with 1417 views | J2BLUE |
In an armchair with a fan on full blast. |  | | |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 19:59 - Jun 24 with 1305 views | armchaircritic59 |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:17 - Jun 24 by NthQldITFC |
Top Tip: I found a brilliant way of getting to sleep on BBC1 at 9pm. |
LOL, and in record time. Prepare the bed for Panama :) |  | | |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 20:23 - Jun 24 with 1267 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 08:34 - Jun 24 by CaptainAhab |
Slept ok until about 5am when a bastard fly kept landing on me. Proceeded to wake me every 5 minutes. |
Of all the episodes of Breaking Bad to re-enact in your bedroom, that's probably the least-worst.
Preferable to an ATM machine landing on your head.
Or your head ending up on the back of a tortoise. | | | |
| How did anyone sleep last night? on 01:16 - Jun 25 with 1122 views | Sarge |
By opening the window after dark and having a fan on. According to the temperature on the fan it was 27-28° in the room all night but I’m lucky in that it doesn’t seem to affect me and as long as there’s some air movement I’m good. | | | |
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