I hear ya, my parents are only 15 ,minutes  from u. I been getting daily reports. I am now I  northern Maine. On the Canadian border.  It's been 90 the last 2 days and got 2 more to go

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Houston+TX+USTX0617:1:US

last 3 weeks england has been hotter than guam and one of my guamian friends is complaining about the heat.

We've averaged over 30c for the last 3 weeks. In castle gresley we've had not one drop of rain in that time either.

I'm also recording hotter temps than the national weather people are giving out.

I go by the temp sensor in my car, a weather station and a thermometer on the balcony.
2 weeks ago they recnoned the max temop countrywide was 29c. My weather station had 35, the thermometer hit 37.9 and my car - which tends to be the lowest hit 34.
No idea where the car temp sensor is, but presumably it's both in the shade and out of the wind and nowhere near the engine.

So quite how the met office is taking their temperatures I don't know.

I don't mind the temp.
That said last week I had to move a clients office (make sure it all got plugged back in right and everything worked). Lot of carrying stuff up and down stairs - that was a very sweaty day lol

But yep weather is really unusual for the uk. May and june were great months, july's started out as good. May it contunue

Same here in Finland. It's been cooler and with more rain recently but a few weeks ago it was awful. I really don't like weather that's too hot. If it's cold you can do things to warm up, if it's too hot there's very little you can do effectively. Good thing I live in Finland I guess

I tend to freeze up in the cold. At around 25-30 degrees my mouth gets numb and it's hard to talk let alone sling. So I find being cold with a jacket much more enjoyable but hot means I can do things like sling still assuming being hot and sweaty isn't a big deal.

When it comes to heat there is that old cliche "Well it's a drrry heat." Which is true until you hit about 110 at which point dry or humid is completely irrelevant, you are cooking.

Talking of heat waves... Today has been incredibly warm. Mix that with working on the fifth floor of a very well insulated Finnish hospital building, having to take a resident to the shower in a very hot bathroom whilst wearing a plastic apron,  wellington boots and a pair of gloves and the result is me literally dripping with sweat. I may well have lost a measurable amount of weight in there.

Funditor406 wrote on Jul 7^th, 2018 at 12:10pm:

I can be witness to that. I spent 3 month in PNW, back in 2014. People were acting like they were melting at 75. Very bizarre