Don't dry yourself - wrap yourself in a large towel and drip dry. The water evaporating is cooling.
Running cool water on pulse points - wrists or ankles - will also have a cooling effect. That's why your icepack at your ankles worked.
It isn't cooling much overnight for you but air the flat in the early morning until the indoor and outdoor temperatures are the same and then shut the windows and draw the curtains, drop the outside blinds if you have them. And stay indoors in the afternoon.
The forecast for Soest I just looked at shows it being back to mid to upper 20s by Friday, not another 12 days. The end is in sight!
Warm! Sunny with few clouds all day. But being high up it stops at 31C, is down to 15C or less overnight and if it is humid it is because it just rained and cooled things down! The temperature dropped 10C when it rained the other afternoon.
I have 4 silent fans and one that is so old and it a fixture in the ceiling..........it was rescued out of the garage of my neighbour, who was going to throw it away.
I'll never understand why the arthritis pain is soooo bad in heat.π Well, I suppose it is the humidity really.
What are your temperatures? One doesn't think of really high temperatures in the NE.
Are you still hibernating? We try to go out for a short walk before 10 am, however I'm still in bed at that time 2 or 3 times a week (having had breakfast brought in by my butler). The time is right though - no tourists!
And 28c in my back garden....................the outside temp gauge a mate bought for a present about 8 years ago, finally reached the highest I have read...........the previous highest was 26c.
Thank you for asking. It has been a plague year in more ways than one. Yet I have managed to have moments of pure childlike happiness and I am closer to nature than ever before. So there are gifts if I take time to notice. I am so grateful that my daughters, husbands and grandchildren are in a small Australian, seaside resort that has no cases at all, and never has. The forum keeps me sane. I have high hopes for Tocilizumab, my Pred is down to 10 mgs - amazing, so quick, after 4 years and recent GCA diagnosis.
After living in various parts of the Middle East on and off for 20 years, my greatest pleasure was to open the freezer door ,and stick my head in..it worked !
I live with this heat and more for several months as I am in Spain. I go and do what I have to first thing in the morning and then stay in with all the blinds down and windows shut until six pm. We do have fans on and I spray myself with ice water as well. I used to love the heat not any more.
I discovered 'Cobbers' a few years ago. They are like neck scarves with gel - you have to soak them first. Wonderfully cooling and when too heavy for the neck, great on the wrists. You can get them online. I am not great in hot heat and these help me to keep sane (or my version of sane)
LOL We are in a heat wave here and just broke the 33 day record for days over 110 F (43 C) and will be 116 F (47 C) today with no end in site. Try using a spray bottle of water to mist yourself in front of a fan. LOL
Oh no! I find 33/34 unbearable - at least if I move. Still I get my exercise by standing in front of the fan every now and again. My friend (the recliner)π€£ beckons me more often!πππΎπΈ
Yes - I was thinking of one of those. Suffering nearly over now though - from Friday 26/27C, even cooler next week - I can cope with that.πππ΅π»
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